Three tiny hairless dogs guard the entrance to Lamar Peterson’s garden. Bea, a 7-year-old Xoloitzcuintli and Chihuahua mix with no teeth and a pink tongue, is the smallest but barks the loudest. The other two pups, Daisy, 6, a Xoloitzcuintli, and Moo, 8, a Chinese crested, try to overtake Bea’s bark, but to no avail.
“They’re extremely protective and Bea, she’ll bark when I walk her … well, she’ll just bark all the time,” Peterson said. “It’s funny, me walking with this multi-pronged leash.”
Peterson cares for the luscious, wonderlandlike garden with his partner, Michael Templeton, in the backyard of their south Minneapolis home. Variously colored pots spill over with greenery, oval-shaped silver raised planter beds with seedlings just hatching and satchels piled high with dirt cover the ground, making any grass barely visible. Read more …
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