Her Honor raises flowers – and no genteel, ordered garden, either.
Giant swaying bushels of peonies, froths of bleeding hearts and tangles of tulips dominate her yard, competing desperately with a wild burgeoning of thimbleberry brambles.
“Gardening,” says Stephanie Scott, Mayor of the Haines Borough, “is about being content with the chaos of the now because you can trust that it will be beautiful in the future.”
Scott is no stranger to chaos.…