Tending Your Neighborhood: Community Gardens

In today's episode, we wrap up our series on what it looks like to love God and our neighbors by loving and tending his creation around us. We've talked trees and bees... so today we're talking gardens! And we could think of no better experts on the subject than our very own neighbors, Kevin and Molly Heinz. Theirs isn’t a community garden in the typical sense but it has become a beautiful and integral piece of our neighborhood community, that's for sure. Your love for God and gardening will grow as you hear about our neighborhood junior botanical society, take Kevin and Molly's gardening quiz, and finally answer the question, "What does every garden need?"

A list of Kevin and Molly's ditch flowers:

Trees: Willow, Smoke Cherry, Weeping Pussy Willow, Peach 

Bulbs: Summer Lily, Tulips, Hyacinths, Imperial Fritillary, Ox Eye Daisies, Red Poppies, Danish Flag Poppies, Bachelor Buttons, Coreopsis, Verbena, Chinese Forget Me Nots, Sunflowers, Seed Dahlias, Cosmos, Zinnias, Purple and Pink Hyssop, Celosia, Marigolds, Irish Poets, Canterbury Bells, bells of Ireland, Larkspur, California Poppies, moss rose, Rudbeckia, and Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate.

Perennials: Daylilies, Lambs Ear, Ajuga, Swamp Milkweed, Orange Milkweed, Yarrow, Sea Holly, Mums, Sempervivums, Sedum, Snapdragons, Columbine, Lavender, Sage, Thyme, Hibiscus, Shasta Daisy, Salvia, Nepeta, Echinacea, Italian Bugloss, Dwarf Twinkle Phlox, and Morning Glory.

Their main yard:

Trees: Apple, Peach, Apricot, Pear, Plumb, Cherry, blueberries, Magnolia, Maple, Weeping Pussy Willow, Weeping Pear, English Midland Hawthorn, Serviceberry, Crabapple

Bushes: Forsythia, Burning Bush, Lavender (2), Hydrangea (5), Crepe Myrtle (2), Hibiscus Hedge, Rose (8), Clematis (3)

Perennials: Daylily (2), Veronica (2), Iris, Peony (3), Allium, Anemone, Delphinium, Zebra Grass, Porcupine Grass, Potentilla, Foxglove, campanula, dianthus, phlox, ice plant, alyssum

Bulbs: Tulips, Hyacinths, Snakehead Fritillary, Liatris, English Bluebells, Tiger and Asiatic Lilys 

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