Beginner Gardening: When did your passion for flowers/gardening start?, 0 by earthwormlover

earthwormlover wrote:
When I was growing up on a farm in KY, gardening was a given part of the summer. We had a huge vegetable garden to provide the food we ate much of the year. We had to get up early and worked very hard. It wasn't exactly welcome for an adolescent. After we moved away from that farm when I was 13, it took many years before I had an interest in it on my own! Then, when I was a freshman in college, I went home with a friend for the weekend and her parents were both avid gardeners, of the flower variety. I was fascinated by what they had done, I had never seen anything like it. They worked side by side every single day and it was a labor of love, unlike my sweaty childhood memories. Well, that was it for me. They gave me a start of mint to make their famous mint tea, which I still drink to this day. They still garden, 20 years later, and so do I.