Eugene Schied is a hobby gardener. He has been gardening for 27 years since buying his home in Vienna, VA.  He lives down the street for me and his garden is just bursting with life and color. He even has a beautiful garden over his garage!  

For Eugene gardening is a means of artistic expression, an opportunity to connect with nature, and a way to honor his ancestors. His dad was a gardener at their home in the suburbs of Chicago.  Now he shares his love of connecting with nature in the garden with his father-in-law who is 83.

When I asked him what he would say to someone who says that they "can't garden" his advice would be: "Anyone can grow something!  It may not be what you wanted to grow or where you wanted to grow it but humans have been growing plants for thousands of years. Somewhere in your ancestry someone was doing something agrarian and growing something and that's what they lived on."