While helping a family member settle into a new home, I tackled the abandoned garden beds. It is hard to determine how long the gardens went untended. The house is a rental that we learned had been empty while major renovations were completed. Unfortunately, the abandoned gardens were not part of the renovation. It needed some serious attention. The first task to tend to was to take stock of what was left in the abandoned garden. A rather untidy rose bush and some varieties of daylily … [Read more...]