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What lead me to become a Master Gardener?

Since the age of five, I was my fathers little helper in the garden.  Cleaning up the vegetables and watching him turn over the soil with a shovel I was soon fascinated by watching plants grow.

I never seemed to have lost an interest in plants.  After losing my mom at the age of twenty and then later losing my daughters it became a priority and a passion to make sure they had flowers from my garden with the seeds I had saved from year to year.  I had seen an article in the newspaper where Leila Arboretum was offering the Master Gardener program.  I went in with the attitude that "I knew it all."  After all, I had been gardening since I was a little girl.  It opened a whole new chapter in my life and that same year I had not only received my Master Gardener certification but also became an Advanced Master Gardener.

With my many years of education and experience I turned my yard into an English Garden.  A garden containing all my favorite plants and elements.  It's full of texture, form, fragrance, and color.  Mature plants intermesh, boundaries become less defined and the bed transforms into a changing palette of colors and textures and varying heights.  When I am in my garden I am in my own world that not only serves me but my loved ones as well.