Northeast Gardening: Show us your Bloomers #2, 1 by amethystsm

amethystsm wrote:
it isn't so much the amount of space that is the issue, it is the surrounding environment which is pretty ugly. i love what i have put together, but then i get a reality check every once in a while - there is nowhere out there that you are not looking at more concrete, asphalt, cars, dumpsters and utility equipment than nature. making an eden is, i fear, not a possibility. i just try to compete with the ugliness. sometimes i forget - then i go thru my pictures and realize - oops, can't post that...

er, the pretty crazy monster cosmos i keep posting - most people in the complex don't even know they are there - here is a wider angle:

(you will never think of my "garden" the same again...)