https://www.joegardensfloral.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://www.joegardensfloral.com/blog/before-there-was-joe-gardens monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ad778ca75ceda69f1577d1f/d11beeb4-2892-43fd-a8d4-10f565822d05/Garden+old.jpg The Potting Press - Before There Was Joe Gardens It would be tempting to introduce this garden at its best: everything in bloom, the bare patches conveniently out of frame. But this is the first entry in The Garden Gazette, and I think we should get to know each other properly. So here it is. The beginning. I started gardening when I was around eight. Of everything I’ve planted at my parents’ house, the garden you’ll see in these photographs is my favorite. But to tell its story properly, I have to start with another garden—and a neighbor named Debby. Long before I was looking to Pinterest or Instagram for inspiration, I was looking down the street. Debby had a beautiful, lush perennial garden that climbed the big hill in front of her house. I remember thinking, quite simply: I need a garden like that. One rainy Sunday after church, I came home, gathered a few leftover annuals my mom had bought for her pots, and started planting on a small hill beside the road. I was elated. The color scheme made absolutely no sense. The spot got plenty of shade, and I’d chosen mostly sun-loving flowers. The layout looked like a dog’s breakfast. But it was mine. Every year, that little garden got a bit better. A little more planning, a little more intention. Debby even donated some Stargazer lilies, which still bloom on the property today. I love that a piece of the garden that inspired me became part of my own. Eventually, though, I wanted more room. The soil was rocky, the shade wasn’t going anywhere, and I had ambitions that were beginning to exceed my small roadside plot. I found a new spot in the yard: roughly three times the size, with plenty of sun. I was in love. The plants had yet to arrive. Looking through the photographs now, I can see my taste developing alongside the garden. Some decisions held up beautifully. Others have photographic evidence against them. At the time, of course, I thought each version was wonderful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ad778ca75ceda69f1577d1f/d01f0f4f-dc0a-4704-9016-d0dfee1f4b10/gardenn.jpg The Potting Press - Before There Was Joe Gardens - That’s one of my favorite things about these pictures. I remember the excitement of what I’d just planted, even when I look at it now and would do something differently. I was working toward a picture in my head that I didn’t yet know how to make. T he garden gave me somewhere to figure it out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6ad778ca75ceda69f1577d1f/0863fb14-a514-4a01-ac4b-1b8880eda729/2020.jpg The Potting Press - Before There Was Joe Gardens So much of the Joe Gardens sensibility took root in that patch of yard: the color, the abundance, the fondness for a stem that wanders a little. When I make an arrangement today, I’m often looking for a feeling I first found there—that lovely moment when separate things begin to belong together. The photographs tell that story better than I could on my own. There are awkward stages, bare patches, and plants that haven’t yet grown into the space I promised they would fill. There are also the later years, when that early optimism finally starts to look justified. I’m glad I kept pictures of all of it. The earliest ones make me laugh (and cringe), but they remind me how much pleasure there was in making something before I was especially good at it. I don’t live at home anymore, but the flowers still return. The perennials grow larger, their roots reaching further into the place where I grew up. Each summer, something I began as a child carries on without needing me quite so much. I still love this garden most. Partly for what it’s become, and partly because I remember every version that came before. Welcome to The Garden Gazette. 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