The home of Tammy Curtis and Daryl Love, who are engaged to be married, located at 106 Westwood Drive in Gallatin, has been selected as Yard of the Month for July by the Gallatin Garden and Crafts Club.
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Some of Tammy’s favorite flowers were given to her by a grandmother who is now deceased. A rose bush by a wagon wheel forms a center piece and was the gift of another grandmother who is no longer living.
“I’ve enjoyed the hobby ever since I was a little girl helping my grandmothers in their flower gardens,” said Tammy. “I have one grandmother who is still living at 91-years-old. I have many of her flowers, too.”
The gardening legacy continues in her own family. Tammy’s granddaughters enjoy helping in the garden, and her oldest granddaughter has started her own flower garden. Her son Nathan presented her with an iron sunflower, one of three in Gallatin after returning from a trip.
“Daryl helps water and has joked that we might get Yard of the Month, so when we did get it, I thought, ‘Wow,'” said Tammy. “The neighbors have complimented us, but I didn’t think anybody else noticed. It is quite an honor.”
Tammy said she usually plants her flowers around Mother’s Day, but got about a week head start this year. The hot weather has been hard on the flowers, but with plenty of water they come around and do fine. She has fertilized only once. She uses only Miracle Grow potting soil and plant food and Miracle Grow fertilizer.
Her garden has impatiens in the decorative dishpans, stella de oro daylilies between the hostas (the city pool also has some of these flowers from her garden), and gavinia gerbra daisies in pots behind the clematis, which are the large green flowering plants with the little purple flowers. Sweet potato vines are mixed in two colors on the deck. The big washtub contains coleus, which keeps its Indian Summer color all the time. Zinnias line the mail box.
“When I find a certain thing that grows well, I stay with it,” Tammy said.