In 2021 my partner and I relocated to the east coast. Having move from the Mojave, I was stoked to grow anything again, and flowers (and tomatoes) seemed like a great place to start fresh!

After a year in Pennsylvania, and a summer merrily making flower beds around the apartment (rental), we moved in with his parents. As spring turned to summer, summer to fall, fall to winter, and back again, a year went by dormant from the move and re-nesting.

“I stopped gardening
because deer
will eat anything!”

A year of transition, and a year of hearing my mother-in-law, say, “we can’t grow anything here, because deer eat everything” became an invitation to new possibilities. As my desire to play in the dirt kept building, I decided to accept the inspiration (and challenge) this unfamiliar concept had presented…

Floweee time!
Start simple!

So what did I do? I put on my “Swedish Chef hat” on and grew the easiest, most abundant thrive-tastic, resistant flower I could think of…