Gardening is a passion many of us share. But when gardeners share that passion with their life partner, it’s gardening paradise.
In this episode, you’ll meet one Atlanta couple who has been creating paradise in their own home garden for over 30 years.
Margo and Larry Attig have created a gardening paradise on their 1.5 acres.
Margo and Larry Attig are outstanding gardeners with a love story about gardening together. When they met 40 years ago, it was love at first sight. Larry was born and raised on a farm in Iowa and says his family always had a flower and vegetable garden. Margo went to nursing school but ended up taking care of plants instead of people.
These two soul mates and best friends have always shared a love for plants and nature. They’ve been creating paradise by transforming their 1.5-acre property for over a decade, and it surpasses many of the gardens that we’ve visited over the years.
Margo shows Joe some of the many original art pieces she creates with items she sources from her natural surroundings.
We have loved spending time in every garden we’ve visited over 11 seasons of filming this show. They all leave an impression, but from the moment we stepped foot into this garden, it felt different. Why?
For one thing, it’s just a suburban garden with no big budget or crew or major planning. Instead, it has evolved over the years into something truly unique.
Margo and Larry are partners in the garden and in life. They love nothing more than being in the garden together and it shows. What they’ve created together is one of the most special gardens we’ve ever visited.
The secret formula is the two people who have created it. They love being together in the garden cultivating this magic place, and it shows.
That’s special. That’s a gardening paradise.
Links & Resources
Growing a Greener World Episode 116: Natives for Sustainability
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The joe gardener Show Podcast Episode: 071-Gardening for Wildlife: How-to Create an Inviting Habitat
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This is the best heartfelt message on living with the garden you create. I reflect on my own journey continuing to garden without my soul partner. I am saving this show to watch again and again. Thank you and the Attig’s.
This is first time I’ve seen your show Joe, and after this episode – I never want to miss one. I just loved this story: proof that a life lived slowly, surrounded by nature, with no insurmountable, intimidating plan but rather small creative efforts, a little every day, with someone you love ~> is a life well lived. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for sharing this sweet story. It was so inspiring, educational, and encouraging. To see these soul mates working together creating such a heaven on earth was wonderful especially in this difficult time.
Great show……and truly wonderful……can you disclose the state or area these folks live in?
Thanks,
JW Smith
jerold.smith@gmail.com
Plano, TX
Joe, this is the first episode you’ve done that’s ever made me cry! Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for this!
Wow this is a heart filling inspiration❤️Thank you for honoring that impulse to pull over and take a look Joe.