Patti is very adept at putting colors and designs together. She has a true talent for the display garden. Her ability to chose colors and textures ? I think she is beyond compare.

Our focus this year is the ability to do many types of gardening in a very small space, like someone's regular-size city lot yard or home landscape. People think they need a great deal of space, but really, small-space gardening is easy to achieve and can have a very high impact.

It's incredibly restorative. A lot of people find great solace in gardening. It teaches self-worth, patience, reliance, persistence. It teaches us the circle of life. It teaches us that things die, and from that new things come.