And in my fondness for the via media, my answer is "Yes!" Can you spot the six flowering plants in this picture? Can you identify the six flowers?
To make the identification a little easier, here are close ups of the sweeties:
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More hortoporn below the fold -
Our best sunlight is in our front yard, and over the years our garden there has grown from two blueberry bushes to about a third of the footage now. It's delicious - stroll out to the front yard, and pick half to two-thirds of dinner: all no spray, zero carbon foot print and fresh. It even reduces the mowing!
We like interplanting for the most part, rather than keeping everything in strict rows. Here's our west bed; how many different plants can you spot?
And the east bed; the globular flowers are leeks and cipollini onions we are growing for seed:
It looks like a good year for the Brussels sprouts (we eat almost everything from them):
And one last lovely in the garden at the moment:
Eat your lawns! You'll never regret it.