From Kosta: I see many more flowering yards these days, as many individuals and families have been inspired (consciously and not) to become part of that flowering city vision. I often wonder, as I walk in my neighborhood, or drive in the city,
what is in people’s secret gardens in their back yards. On my back deck, for
example, I’ve created a Greek theme container garden with a grape arbor further
back. in creating my own project, I’ve become aware of so may people who have
one or more plants, from Greece, Ireland, Portugal. Cambodia, from various
parts of Africa, and from the wider wherever. One of the charette’s visions was
that of a string of ethnic gardens. It hasn’t happened in the tourist sense –
but it is true in the collective reality (excuse this phrase) of Lowell’s
people.