Waiting to Bloom

We moved to Sandy Hook about 15 years ago - Joe spotted this house knowing that the location was perfect for a restaurant. As we lived our lives here for those years, we spent countless hours planning and dreaming of what we would do here. I remember adding the "white picket fence"and planting the bulbs, shubs and flowers. One day, while gardening out front, a person in a car driving by shouted out "Thanks for cleaning up the Hook!" I always felt it was important to give people something beautiful to look at while they drove by. We planted the 13 flowering Bradford Pear trees that line the parking lot about 12 years ago. They were sticks then, all piled up in the back of a trailer. Since then, we have heard so many comments about those trees - people wait for them to bloom - they are just beautiful. They are one of the first trees to have flowers and one of the last trees to lose their leaves in the fall. They were worth every penny. I actually cried when one of them split down the middle in the freak snowstorm we had that October! I don't know why - but seeing their beauty adds to the experience here at figs, I hope it does for you too.