Aunt Hazel and Me

Aunt Hazel's Garden was a special place for my family and me when I was young and as I grew older. When we visited Aunt Hazel and Uncle Harry a beautiful table would be set where we enjoyed a delicious meal, often to celebrate a birthday. 

Uncle Harry and Aunt Hazel in Their Garden

After the meal we always took a trip down to the garden to enjoy the beauty that Aunt Hazel cultivated in her backyard. My sister and I would prepare our newspapers and moist paper towels which would eventually hold the bouquets of flowers that we eagerly picked from Hazel's garden.

   

My Sister and Me with our Freshly Picked Bouquets

My girls and nieces got to 

enjoy this activity too. 

Hazel's Grand-Nieces Enjoining Their Freshly Picked Flowers

The Little One Too!

 We all enjoyed the garden and it is a great place to take colorful pictures.

How I Learned to Garden

Hazel's love for gardening attracted me to want to garden too. Hazel would bring flowers down to my house so I could plant them in my garden where I grew up. When I married and had a garden of my own Aunt Hazel would give me flowers to plant in my yard and I learned how to keep them alive in my garden. I had plants from Hazel, bought plants from nurseries and had established plants in my yard, all of which I cared for. I learned through the years which plants did well in my climate, sun and shade areas of my garden and which plants did not do well due to my type of soil or pests in my garden.

In Aunt Hazel's Garden I share what I have learned from Hazel and what I have learned from my experience in the garden. I share the plants that have grown for me and have brought me great joy in watching them grow. I share my knowledge of individual plants, my creativity of decorating in my garden and my goal of creating a beautiful space where one can enjoy so many things. At times I also share a picture from Hazel's garden that so inspired me. As you can see there is a bit of nostalgia that comes to my mind when I share about gardening.

Now there's a little background as to why I call this blog Aunt Hazel's Garden 

and why I say, 

Life in Aunt Hazel’s Garden was a special place filled with color, wonder, scents and wonderful possibilities. I still get whiffs of scents that take me back to her garden. Aunt Hazel inspired me to love gardening by sharing her lovely garden and its produce with us as kids and her bringing of plants to my childhood home for me to learn to grow. 

In her memory and the genuine love that I now have for creating a beautiful space and cultivating each plant’s potential, I want to share with you the many joys that gardening offers. Her love for gardening lives on in a very special way for me. 

Now you know how I fell in love with gardening!

Thanks Aunt Hazel!

💙Linda