Spring Home and Garden 2010

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The Times-Herald

Spring Home & Garden Sunday, April 25, 2010 — 1B

By the garden gate Spring garden tour highlights Coweta gardens

advantages of disease-resistant noisette roses that are repeat bloomers with an amazing fragrance. Also take note of the unexpected combination of plants such as blueberries and herbs happily existing with perennials. Tim Davis’ three-acre garden on Cedar Creek Road is a combination of whimsy and creativity. Pass through a gate and “sunflowers” crafted by the homeowner will greet you. Throughout the Coweta County Master Gardeners have selected five outstanding Newnan gardens to be garden, Davis takes everyday objects, such as rebar or bowling balls, and turns them into showcased in its annual Spring Garden Gate Tour scheduled for Saturday, May 22. Tour time works of art. This garden is packed with ideas. Happy Valley Circle resident Patricia Buck is is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. a transplanted Texan who has coaxed the Master Gardener Ann Rouse, with help from Georgia red clay into a lovely shade garden of husband, Don, has embraced their three acre hostas, ferns, pachysandras, Oak Leaf garden on Lake Ridge Road and turned it into a hydrangeas, and Japanese maples. Buck is also wonderful space for outdoor family activities. an artist and this is played out with Tiffany style Their woodland garden is nestled on the point of a reservoir filled with plants perfect for their lampshades popping up out of the soil or rural setting. Lush shade plants like hostas, lady stumps with faces. For more information on the tour, call 770-251ferns, bleeding hearts, Nippon lily and hydrangeas are happily settled among the trees. 2673 or the Coweta County Extension Office at Janet Robinson, the 2008 Master Gardener of 770-254-2620. Tickets will be on sale at the nursery or at the Extension Office, 255 Pine Rd., the Year, appropriately resides on Camellia Newnan. Circle. There is an impressive water feature Included in the $20 ticket price is a catered where herons stand guard over iris, water lilies, lunch at Country Gardens Farm and Nursery, papyri, and cattails. Aside from the traditional azaleas, camellias, and rhododendron, there are 3728 Lower Fayetteville Rd., Newnan, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. more than 100 varieties of daylilies and 25 variThe proceeds from the garden tour help supeties of iris. As you wind your way past a gazebo port the Coweta County Master Gardener down to a lake, you’ll find a palette of Italian arum, rose bed, heuchera, and a Japanese garden Association, a volunteer organization that provides horticultural information to the communicomplete with a pagoda. ty in educational and beautification projects by Bonnie Umberger, a master gardener for 14 using the research and resources of the years, has proven that anyone can have a backyard woodland garden in a subdivision. She and University of Georgia. The Association proher husband, Steve, have resided on Southshore motes local UGA Extension projects such as 4H, Junior Master Gardeners, the operation of an Drive for 16 years. Over time the garden has educational greenhouse and the Master evolved from a typical subdivision plot with a Gardener Scholarship fund for Coweta County children’s playground into a garden filled with high school seniors who wish to pursue a career native plants and hardwoods. The Umbergers in horticulture, agriculture, environmental sciare particularly fond of their antique rose collection and will gladly educate visitors on the ence or a related subject.

Gardeners are artists who paint with plants and this is exemplified by this placement of the delicate, eye-popping red leaves and artful branching of a Japanese maple.

Paths of green meander through carefully tended beds leading to a gazebo of bird houses. This is the three-acre garden of the Rouse family.

Photos by Master Gardener Steve Rydzewski

The Southshore Drive garden of Bonnie Umberger is included on this year’s Spring Garden Gate Tour. Nestled in a wooded cottage garden, a bright blue door draws the eye down a path to a rustic garden shed built amid azaleas.

At first glance, this scene seems to be a natural mountain stream, but it’s not. Part of a larger water feature, this retreat is located in the back yard of Janet Robinson, the 2008 Master Gardener of the Year.


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