The following text and photos are from an email received by Shelagh Smethurst, who thought that the efforts of this dedicated grower deserved an audience here.... I have to agree and have loaded the pictures for Shelagh.
Text from the email Shelagh received......
"For years we have passed this house and marvelled at the floral display in Tacoma .
Last year there was no display and we had wondered if the Asian man who owns this house was ill.
This year the display was back in force and we stopped this past Sunday to photograph it.
We told him how much we had enjoyed his garden all these years and he invited us to tour his creation.
We found the back garden to be as beautiful as the front.
He is Vietnamese, shy, very soft spoken, and speaks very little English, so we couldn't discuss too much with him about the garden, I hope you all enjoy this as much as we did.
Would you believe he puts his front lawn pot plants away every night and puts them up every day for people to admire!
As you can see a lot of the flowers are in pots. I guess this is so they can be changed easily.
The front of the house is not neglected,either.
There is a photo of the master gardener- I wish we could have communicated.
It is hard to believe this is one man's work and I believe he must work on it every day, all day long.
What an accomplishment, and joy for his neighbours."
