Lucy loved gardening
Lucille Ball was an avid gardener. According to close friends, they could often find her tending to various flowers and plants in her spacious backyard. Her favorite flowers were peonies and lilacs, which grow quite well in the East Coast. She loved gardening so much that she would get down on all fours in the soil to tend to her lovely flowers.
Desi was also a pretty handy gardener back when they were still together, though he left the stopped shoveling dirt after their divorce and when his health started deteriorating. As for Lucy, she took her gardening hobby with her from her ranch in California to her estate in New York and back to the West Coast in Beverly Hills.