by Olivia Cunning I love flower gardening. Each winter, I long for the first spring flowers to emerge from the ground and display their brave blooms. There was a time, not so long ago, that I would spend entire weekends planting, tending, weeding, mulching and watering all my pretty little flowers. This is what my garden looked like in the spring. These are photos I took of my garden flowers around five years ago. It was so wonderful to see such gorgeous blooms after a long, harsh winter in The Plains. This is the same garden in the summer. Lilies thrive in this climate, much to my delight. Obviously, I love spring flowers and lilies. Some of my lilies grew shoulder-high and they smelled heavenly. Due to my increasingly busy life and lack of commitment to weeding and fertilizing and watering, my flower garden slowly deteriorated. Each year there were more weeds and fewer flowers. I kept telling myself ...
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