The couple, who co-own an architectural firm, call their eight and a half acres Ho Hum Hollow, but thumb-twiddling isn't on the agenda. Besides building a new house, Page and Jozsa hacked through poison ivy, pried up basketball-size stones from the earth, and hauled manure to "bring back the land."
Garden Work
Exuberant hosts, Page and Jozsa entertain every weekend. When visitors bemoan the toil a kitchen garden must demand, Page nods silently. It's a charade, she admits: "I try to look very tired and don't let on that when I garden, I'm hardly working. I listen to bees, sniff the mock oranges, stretch, and look. I'm learning, playing, having the time of my life. Gardening is one-third science, one-third art, one-third Peace Corps."
Edible Flowers
She still orders seeds in winter and starts them indoors in February, because it's the only way to cultivate rare or heirloom varieties that local places don't stock. "If you buy run-of-the-mill transplants, you're limited, and the point of this garden is that it's limitless. I've grown three-dozen different tomatoes, a dozen pepper varieties, a half-dozen types of cucumber, okra, and beans — in a single season." Not to mention edible flowers (and inedible iris, peonies, and dahlias that tempt the eye).
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