I can't give my mom the garden she deserves, but her flowers are as resilient as she is

This First Person column is written by Tony Ho, who lives in Vancouver. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

My four-year-old son eagerly picks vibrant green wine grapes from the vine. We’re playing a game to find which ones are bursting with sweetness or will make him pucker his lips. The vines are several years old; their twisted, woody stems deeply embedded into the chain-link fence lining one side of my mom’s container garden in the back alley of her east Vancouver apartment.

I love watching my son help water my mom’s container garden and she proudly tells him how the peas and tomatoes will

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