Nature’s Song Garden

The development of Nature's Song (Psalm 96:1) has been a labor of love over the past two decades, and has been featured twice on the Volunteer Gardener show. With the landscape's gentle slopes, the viewer is afforded a natural layering of its plant delights, and many of them are native species. Among the favorites in the multitude of trees, shrubs, and perennials are dogwoods, redbuds, hydrangeas, baptisia, amsonias, and a plethora of ferns. Conveniently situated near the house are kitchen and herb gardens which utilize stock tanks and wooden barrels for ease of maintenance. The front yard contains hosta beds with approximately three hundred varieties, and one bed has each Hosta of the Year. A courtyard garden is flanked with boxwoods, hydrangeas, ferns, and a mature Yoshino cherry tree. Caladiums, hydrangea, astilbe, clematis, and a kousa dogwood combine to form a white garden beside one of the patios. With water features and pathways winding through the property, there are places to relax by the stream and in other locations. Boulders, stacked stone walls, and wooden arbors lend a rustic feel to the space. At the top of the slope a display of very old grapevines creates a backdrop for a woodland retreat with Jacob's ladder, dwarf crested iris, Solomon seal, columbine, blood root, and many spring ephemerals such as trilliums. Please come and enjoy! Nature's Song awaits you.