A Shoutout to the Gingers Dancing in My Garden

Ornamental or Culinary — I love you all

SIAM TULIP — Photo by Author

Shortly after I began gardening, I walked into a friend’s kitchen — and into a cloud of floral fragrance. I find bottled floral perfumes overpoweringly sweet. But when a flower gives off that fragrance — whether honeysuckle, gardenia, or jasmine — I love it.