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‘All the neighbors know who she is’: How one woman built a #FlowerFarm across eight yards

By Lisa Boone, July 10, 2023

"Not surprisingly, the flowers burst out of yards in various states of bloom due to the seasons. Around the corner from her home base, across the street from Webster Elementary School in City Heights, yellow and pink strawflowers and delicate blue scabiosa pincushions grow tall in raised beds.

"A quarter mile in the other direction, pink bellflowers and the conclusion of fragrant sweet peas grow in neat rows behind the rental home of Sophie Thompson.

"'All of my gardens are in places where people cannot care for their yards the way they would like,' said Nafis, 36. She also cultivated the #alley behind her 800-square-foot home. 'I feel I’m adding value to their homes and our neighborhood.'

"Mindful of trends but not beholden to them, Nafis prefers growing seasonal flowers that speak to her. 'I like fragrant flowers like roses, sweet peas and scented geraniums,' she said of the flowers blooming in her front yard and backyard. Right now, the cool season flowers — snapdragons, strawflowers, sweet peas and poppies — are transitioning to ranunculus and anemones and summer annuals like dahlias, zinnias and cosmos."

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Read more: https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-07-10/urban-farmer-grows-flowers-in-neighbors-yards?utm_source=pocket-newtab