We used to have a HUGE vegetable garden behind our backyard fence. It is a land parcel of EPA easement, belonging to another county. We cleared away the thick thorny bushes little by little over nine years ago, and I had an ambition to have a even bigger native garden surrounding the vegetable garden.
Then the backyard neighborhood was finished the development and some of those backyard neighbors called in their Home Ownership Association and claimed back that land in 2007. Our neighbors and we had to move the fence and plants back in a month. Lots of work, HARD work. A positive way to view this: it gave me an opportunity to redesign our flower and vegetable gardens, even though I had to discard some of the trees, flowers, and structures.
Now we have a self-made tool shed, a self-made two-bin wooden compost box, a self-made wooden picnic table, and flowers/vegetables everywhere, in the backyard along the fence, in the front yard beside the entrance, and on both eastern and western sides of the house. Lots of green, continuous blooming of colorful flowers. Everyday when I watch out to the window, I see flowers smiling back to me. What a joyful life!
And the future of our garden? Faithful comeback of all my perennials year after year, even greener and more colorful!
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