The new and expanded Dahlia Garden at Bedlam Farm is a joy and a wonder. Maria dug out a whole new section and friends gave us all kinds of Dahlia’s – red and yellow ones, blood red flowers – that are now beginning to come up. The Dahlia’s grow high, offering shade and privacy to the area where we sit and are especially beautiful to look at. I love the way new things come up, I never even heard of Dahlia’s until a year or so ago,and now we have a strong Dahlia garden, I am fond of this exotic and lush South American flower. The gratitude urn looks as if it grew there.

How lucky I have a garden like this, I am discovering gardening late in life. I can’t do much of the physical work now, Maria does most of that, but I look forward to weeding in a couple of months and I do water them every day.