The Bug Garden

It has been five years or so since I planted this garden for a retired entomology professor. He sure knew his bugs. He didn't know squat about plants. A few seasons in, that led to a garden rending moment of exasperation executed with roundup from the evidence I saw.

I have been maintaining the garden for the last two years since he had a life altering gardening accident of another sort.

It is finally becoming the wildflower meadow and bug magnet he requested and that I anticipated. I let nature take over and repair the damage.

I'm beginning to think it takes a real plant whisperer to pull off a site specific, living in the flow of nature, meadow garden.

There really aren't many working gardeners or garden owners who can successfully not maintain a garden enough for it to look good naturally over time.

It was planted to provide bug habitat and year round interest as a front garden for a country home.

The professor did some of his own plantings in the years before his unfortunate gardening ending accident. Very nice. Most everybody can understand how a flower bed like this works.

It takes a different kind of gardener to make a garden made for bugs look pretty.