Cait's Garden

Many gardens are not looking so fine at this point in the summer. And rarely do I see an entrance to a garden that makes me go “wow.” So it is with double the pleasure that I post this photo from my garden mentor, my mother, taken just this week. As you walk from the front of her house, around the side and into the backyard, you are greeted by an Aphrodite Rose of Sharon (on the left) and an old-fashioned charmer of a combination of yellow black-eyed susan, pink phlox, and fluffy white Annabelle hydrangeas on the right. Plus a nifty wrought iron garden decoration. I even enjoy the magnolia tree in the middle of the photo, which has bright green foliage all summer. If you have a fabulous backyard, you probably already have some flowers spilling over to the front, but it’s fun to consider what glimpse of your yard passersby get as they walk by.