This theme garden is for the birds. There are lots of bird friendly shrubs, a bird bath, bird houses, bird feeders and even a hummingbird stepping stone. There was a lone maple tree in our backyard and needing another … [Read more...]
About From Cheryl's Garden
A self-proclaimed “plant geek,” Cheryl received her Horticulture degree at Milwaukee Area Technical College. She spent many years working in the Otter Creek Landscape division and at John Michael Kohler Arts Center gardens. She’s now the office manager for The Wreath Factory and Otter Creek Landscape. Follow her blog, From Cheryl's Garden, for tips, travels and things that pop up in her garden!
From Cheryl’s Garden: Garden 8 – The Center Garden
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This garden sits in the center of our half moon driveway. The landscape bed with its stone edging was there when we bought the house and it also had rotten granite stones like the Ally Mae Garden as the mulch. After … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Gardens: Week 7: The Ally Mae Garden
April 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This week's tour is one of my favorite gardens the "Ally Mae Garden." The garden is about 50' by 20' and has a lot of shade plants. When we moved to this property, this garden consisted of two ash trees, nine spireas, … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 6 – The Music Garden
March 31, 2013 By 1 Comment
What does 'All That Jazz', 'Blue Danube', 'Radar Love, 'Rhythm and Blues' and 'Dancing Queen' have in common? These are all cultivars in my Music Garden. This next garden is dedicated to my son, the musician. Over the … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 5 – Conifer Garden
March 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to week five and a tour of the Conifer Garden. The bed is anchored by two very large spruce trees with an assortment of evergreen or conifer shrubs and trees. Year one the garden consisisted of the anchor … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 4 – The 50 Garden
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to week four of the tour of my 13 gardens. This garden is ten years old and was created to block the neighbor's horse barn from our view when sitting on the deck. We planted ten Lonicera tatarica 'Arnold Red' … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 3 – Delaney’s Garden
February 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to Week 3 with Delaney's Garden. This garden was started in 2005 and named after my then 3 year old stubborn niece Delaney who would only wear the color pink. I decided to use shades of pink and lime green to … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 2 – Makenna’s Garden
February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This week I will spotlight another garden in my series "13 Gardens in 13 Weeks." Makenna's Garden has a lot of pink, lime green and white flowers with garden art of butterflies and ladybugs. My niece, Makenna said at … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: 13 Gardens in 13 Weeks
January 31, 2013 By 2 Comments
For the next thirteen weeks, I will be taking you on a tour of my gardens. Each week I will showcase one of our thirteen gardens. We have been in our home on one acre since 2001 and have been working on creating gardens … [Read more...]
From Cheryl’s Garden: Gardening Goals for 2013
January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
January is always a good time to reflect on last year's gardening experiences. The holiday decorations are taken down and the house is somewhat clean so now it's time to read or reread all those gardening magazines and … [Read more...]
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