Renee Shepherd

Renee Shepherd
Renee Shepherd is a gardening entrepreneur and writer known for heirloom seed advocacy and garden-based cooking using home-grown herbs. Better Homes and Gardens called her "a groundbreaking gardener", and Businessweek a "pioneering innovator" who helped popularize specialty vegetables and cottage garden flowers for home gardening and gourmet restaurants...
flowers people provide reasons
Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight.
flower start surprise
Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted.
colors despite fact sow together
Oftentimes, despite the fact that you don't think two colors go together - when they sow themselves, they look fabulous.
gardening joy
That's part of why gardening is a joy and an art, and not a science. You don't always know what's going to happen.