Hi, Folks! My name is Kate and I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest.....er, that's the Great NorthWet.....I grow mostly an eclectic variety of perennials and vegetables......garden organically, compost everything that doesn't have a face,find my spirit and my comfort when I'm diggin' in the earth.......my garden is kinda disheveled "cottage style".......started from nothing but scotch broom and blackberries......have lived here for most of my grown-up life but hailed originally from the Mid-West (Illinois).....I would love to have a box car load of that beautiful black heartland topsoil dumped here!!!! I think the glacier sat right on my property for about a billion years and left me a rock for each year.....I am always up for a little "garden talk"! Nice to meetcha!!!!! ~Kate-- "There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton