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basil, potatoes, beans, salsify, cabbage, and rhubarb.
On the other side of the boxwoods are her flowers: zinnias, marigolds, salvia, nasturtiums, daisies and delphinium.
Mrs. Fletcher cultivates Queen Anne’s Lace, which rewards her with blooms twice as large as those found wild. She likes to move her flowers around a lot, and is able to do so even in the summer heat by using a little creativity.
“1 moved some zinnias in full bloom,” she says. “I was able to keep them from wilting by using an old umbrella stuck in the ground. It worked fine, but folks probably thought I was crazy with an umbrella growing in my garden.”
Mrs. Fletcher does like to go about her business with a sense of humor and she tells the story about the time a little cat showed up at her door. "I was unable to care for it so I tried to get the animal put on welfare,” she
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