Last week, I enjoyed the pleasure of visiting the homes and gardens of our AnnArbor.com Summer Garden Contest winners: two distinctly different but equally pleasing nature havens by Walter Fisher and Mary Hewlett. Walter Fisher, a retired microbiologist, has spent about 16 years cultivating a garden he says is “a ...
Jeanene Riemenschneider loves to be home working with the soil, and watching things grow. “I play golf, but I’d rather be gardening. I’m a much better gardener,” the Chelsea resident said. “I’d rather be gardening than almost anything else.” Her garden was among the 10 unique gardens on display at ...
Ten unique gardens will be featured in this year’s Chelsea Garden Walk, including a three-acre “secret garden” in the city and a stunning lakeside garden filled with hundreds of day lilies and ornamental grasses. The biennial walk, which offers a rare opportunity to view some of the Chelsea area’s most ...
The Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple will celebrate Art Fair week with tours of the Temple gardens and presentations on Buddhism and art. On Friday, July 23rd, garden tours will again be available starting at 3:00 pm. Benjamin Brose, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University ...
David Baker has combined natural with cultivated, arid with bog and traditional with fanciful to create gardens at his country home in Salem Township that have something for everyone. There are gardens for meditation, gardens for hot colors and gardens for cool colors. There are acres of woodlands with native ...
The Dexter Garden Club is presenting A Garden Walk on Saturday, June 5th from 10 to 4. Six private gardens in and around Dexter displaying their early summer beauty will be open to garden walk ticket holders to visit. Each garden will have a special focus for enjoyment, including a ...