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Featured Gardens

Sharon Kaczorowski “Wabasha Street Blooms”
207 East Wabasha Street, Winona

Sharon was inspired to expand her modest gardening attempts by her neighbor and friend Jennifer. The front garden is a combination of native plants, grasses, herbs, a dwarf cherry and evergreens, blended with some annuals and garden art. Sharon’s goal is to inspire others to beautify their front yards with flower gardens.

Wayne & Bonnie Kelly “Terraced Tranquility”
53 West Lake Blvd, Winona

Nestled against the southern bluff is this large terraced garden built of Winona stone. Seventy steps lead up to the gazebo that overlooks the garden. Here is a conifer garden, hundreds of hostas, several interesting weeping trees, boxwood hedges, multiple small flowering plants, annual plant borders, container gardens, window boxes, vines and a variety of garden art!

Minnesota Marine Museum
”The Gardens of The Minnesota Marine Art Museum”
800 Riverview Drive, Winona.

These extended gardens were designed by Mark Swart, based on the environment of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. The pathways will take you past over eighty perennials, trees and bushes. A large collection of perennial and ornamental grasses provide a full palette of color during the growing season, brilliant fall colors, and unique seed pods and textures during the winter months.

Ray & Dianne Radatz “Garden Medley”
25387 County Road 25, Lewiston

Over the hill and through the woods to the Radatz Farm. This garden is definitely worth the drive! One old farmhouse and two passionate plantspeople result in a must-see garden. Designed by Dianne, this gracious home and gardens is an inspiration. Two large perennial gardens a shade garden with hostas, kitchen and herb gardens, and a container garden, and much more! These gardens build into a late summer crescendo as the annuals explode into color!

Hazelton Garden “River Retreat”
Roy & Mary Lou Hazelton
850 Prairie Island Road, Winona

Tranquil gardens on the Mississippi with a beautiful pond 45’x20’ feet and hundreds of fish including koi, goldfish and shubunkins. Many flowering lilies adorn this pond. Flower beds, vegetable garden, grape vines, raspberries, mature trees and an expansive lawn give this property a park-like presence!

Helga Heise “Hillside Garden”
1404 Heights Boulevard, Winona

Over the years Helga has vacillated between labor-intensive gardens and almost zero maintenance evergreen plantings. The compromise is perennials and annuals in a relatively small space. A hillside is planted with various types of pine trees, which reminds Helga of the Black Forest from her native Germany. The pine trees are combined with low growing cotoneaster, pachysandra and evergreens – a very interesting use of space here.

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