so every garden is so different and has a sort of a history of what what was here before you started well a lot of the  front and there were some overlap likes which are still here but there wasn't much and actually i think from mostly the barn on back had been pasture because if five acres had been passed year for people's horses and and so we really store had to make the gardens and my husband really liked doing the flowers in the shrubbery i was the food person and we had two big vegetable gardens up on the hill here and so i did the vegetables and he did the flowers so saying it happened in the south is a good metaphor  and my mother was about teacher who always had a vegetable garden so i think growing things is somewhere in my genetic makeup and i had never even in graduate school in chapel hill north carolina we had a vegetable garden and so i think i've always had to grow things and coming to vermont and growing things in vermont became a bit of a challenge because we can always have the things that i was used to having so i had to adapt to the kinds of plants that would grow here and but it was a learning experience and i'm still learning and we often planted  we we have angus oh out front name for a grandchild and you know we have other things have associations and memories so i think the garden is almost a history as well yeah right maybe if you can show that how that came about so we walk out day this part of the garden except for the last likes and this part of the garden around that rock are the castings came to be i did get an award from the university for teaching the kidder award and there was some money attached and i thought that what i would like to do with it was to put it in my garden so i asked charlie siegrist who i think is a local genius like gardening gertrude noise and he designed a garden for me he expanded what we had and i think made it more graceful and he's very good with native plants and knowing what will do well here so you know the area well what do you do ferdi special sites well those are the sort of spectacular is right away they're almost i mean charlie said we have to put them in a place charlie siegrist years and years ago this nine hundred ninety seven where they were not spread to other places where they go so they're very invasive so you have to sort of contain them well this was my birthday present and i you know i like having associations with plant a dear friend gave me a whooping crab apple tree i didn't know such a thing existed but it's a graceful and it seems like it's place this is one of the older pieces of year some things better than others good kayo broccoli not so good other things but it's time to pull the garlic so i've got to do that the next day or two but this is the size  the garden that i can do by hand i don't have a machine but i can keep this by hand so this is almost a room yes it is a room and my grandchildren my own her grandchildren when they were little they used to bring their toys and play one level a playground yes and they fold up plated yes i made this just for them and i didn't but then i thought of course i did it canned in the front and the wall and garden right in front of the house next to the house in the front i like being able to sort of why and around and see different parts of the garden from different something well this is i don't know the botanical name and i should but i can't keep all of those things in my head this is called commonly cow elephant ear and my grandchildren when they're little they always think they're little like this with the plant as if that plant might eat them up so they've got to live this cat oh yes i saw her start around  last summer i decided that i needed something here that would just be a focal point sort of anchor this garden besides the the tree and so chris cleary is such a good stone person local artist that i asked him to make it this for me and i've been very happy with it i think it looks as if it belongs here th is something that jane kennedy did for a jury art show what a good way to finish this little tour all those memories because that's what you feel walking around