GARDEN TOUR - 2004

June 27th 1pm to 5pm

1. The GLAHS Museum - 118 W Lincoln Street
The Museum features an herb garden containing a variety of culinary and medicinal herbs. Visitors will learn about the various herb plantings and how they can be used.

2. The Grand Ledge Opera House - 121 S. Bridge Street
The Opera House offers a river bank view from a beautiful gazebo surrounded by rose bushes, four memorial gardens with a variety of perennials, annuals and memorial trees.

3. Bruce and Karen Ramthun – 838 E. Scott Street
Bruce and Karen developed their cottage style garden in their terraced back yard which features a wildflower garden, a water garden complete with a pond and waterfall designed and built by Bruce, along with many annuals and perennials. A prized peony variety, dating back to Karen’s great-great-grandmother, has been passed down from generation to generation. Come and enjoy the Ramthun garden with the birds and butterflies.

4. Jack and Don Thomann - 634 Edwards Street
Originally started 10 years ago to encourage use of the sidewalk instead of their front lawn, the Thomann garden now spans the entire front yard of their home’s corner lot. Passersby enjoy the Thomann’s labor of love from spring through fall.

5. Bob and Terry Bouck - 1132 Seymour Street
The Bouck garden has evolved over thirty-five years into a beautiful memorial garden with plants and trees gifted by Terry’s mother and grandmother. A huge terra cotta frog stands watch over a pond complete with a fountain and goldfish community.

6. David and Sue Jonas – 1007 Flickerham Drive
Inspired by a Home and Garden show exhibit, David Jonas started hauling rocks from a friend’s three farms back in 1998. Currently, 1,000 rocks define garden beds containing roses, peonies, day lilies, hollyhocks, raspberries and other plantings.

7. Paul and Sandy Cherry – 5990 Peachtree Drive
Paul and Sandy Cherry have both completed Master Gardner courses and currently serve as Joint Secretaries of the Capital Area Coy and Water Garden Club. Their love of gardening and hard scape design is evident in the back yard retreat they have created over the past seven years. Visitors will enjoy a large scale waterfall and pond surrounded by a variety of aquatic and native plants, exotic trees, annuals and perennials.

8. Gary and Marty Ricks – 6100 Peachtree
Wander five acres containing a large natural pond with a resident duck family, three smaller garden ponds, a variety of fountains, a grape vineyard, nut orchard, and vegetable garden all created by the Rick’s passion for gardening over the past twenty-five years.