Doug and Jane have several garden patches around their home, and have tried different crops every year. As the map shows, they are most successful growing tomatoes, peppers, beans, nasturtiums and marigolds, but keep trying sugar snap peas, zinnias, and various pumpkinoids. (Doug won't admit they're forms of squash.)

This rose was barely surviving in the back. When Mrs. Jenkins moved away, Scott Akers transplanted it to the front bed by the walk. Now we have to cut it back every year to keep it from taking over the neighborhood!

Doug has a few cacti: some from neighbors, some he has had for decades, and one he found on a Virginia mountainside. He has started collecting African milkbushes, and twice has tried to steal a sprig of a giant one from the National Arboretum Greenhouse. He left his pineapple plant out to freeze one winter, and deeply regrets it. But nobody was stabbed by the leaves.

Jane has a number of hanging plants downstairs, and some Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti in a greenhouse window in her room.

Trees on the property

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