Shady trees & May blooms

A house on a corner lot offers double the challenge for hands-on gardeners, but Trini Rodriguez enjoys tending her front and side yards to beautify the neighborhood right across from Central Cultural Hispano de San Marcos. As the Spring Lake Garden Club’s yard of the month for May, Rodriguez’s landscape includes everything from a huge ancient oak and pecan tree to delicate oxalis with their shamrock leaves edging flower beds.

Rodriguez grew up in the house and, now retired, keeps up her late mother’s commitment to growing flowering plants in beds surrounding the house and driveway.