Scraggly corner will  bloom soon
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
POMFRET — The bleak triangle of dirt at the corner of Rt. 97 and Taft Pond Road was a frustration.
The patch’s neighbor across the street, Christine Kalafus, decided to fix the problem. A couple weeks ago she planted wildflower seeds.
The wildflower garden might look scruffy now but the seeds are already coming up she said. Within a couple weeks, it will be well on its way to beautiful. 
“The grass was really sparse. It wasn’t really growing very well,” she said. “Sometimes people parked there because they’re lost or they’re looking for directions and they’d pull over onto the grass.”
Originally the triangle was a cutaway, she said. It was part of her property, before she lived there. The previous owner had taken care of the triangle “and we just kind of took over what the previous owner did. We just maintain it.” When there was grass, they mowed it. Other neighbors on Taft Pond Road also helped.
Finally she thought to herself “well we have all these wildflowers in our yard and I thought ‘Maybe we’d do it in there.” So they did. “It’s pretty and it’s good pollinators.”
She has about a half-acre of her yard planted with wildflowers and some will get very tall. “They’ve gotten up to like 7 feet so you can walk through – it’s like a maze.” 
They also take care of the flag that flies in the middle of the up and coming garden. A neighbor had handled it and Kalafus said “My husband saw him walking every day, like from down the street, and he said ‘You know, we can do it. We can put it up’.” 
The flowers will reseed every year.
“Anytime I can add flowers, I like to.” Amen.

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