OPEN DAYS AND DIGGING DEEPER GARDEN TOURS 2022

Garden Club of Greater Milwaukee is participating in Open Days, a national program of The Garden Conservancy.

In 2022 more than 11 acres of unique, rarely open, private gardens at three locations in Milwaukee County were welcoming visitors.

Garden Club of Greater Milwaukee and Garden Conservancy also sponsored a premier Digging Deeper event at Sally Edgett’s Garden Gone Wild for a small group of visitors. This was a “must attend” for lovers of native plants who want to learn how to incorporate them into their garden. Additional details are below.

THE GARDENS:

The Vineyard at River Hills

The Vineyard at River Hills features a 2-acre vineyard of winter-hearty grapes, a large vegetable and soft fruit garden and cutting garden, wild areas, including a pond, and sun and shade perennial borders, surrounding a 100-year-old house on a 5-acre plot.

The Robbins Garden

The Robbins Garden, also in River Hills, contains stunning perennial borders in the English style, a colorful assemblage of Wisconsin prairie plants that bloom from late spring into fall, and artist-designed works, including a hand-painted scuba diver and marine animals on the bottom of the pool.

The Tsai Garden

The Tsai Garden in Bayside packs an amazing amount of color, texture and creativity into a suburban lot. The owner is constantly testing new plants to see if they meet her expectations for vigor and color, and then incorporates them into her garden tapestry. Visits to Japan have led to the incorporation of evergreens into interesting, unexpected and beautiful plant combinations.

Garden Gone Wild, Digging Deeper Event.

Gardening with native plants has been growing in popularity.

Visit Sally Edgett’s Garden Gone Wild to learn how to successfully incorporate native plants into your garden.

Sally took classes with Darrel Morrison, referred to as “the elder statesman of the ecological landscape movement” by the New York Times, in the 1970s. Building on a childhood fascination with “wild flowers”, she has put her knowledge to work over the last 40 years.

Join Sally and discover the wealth of native plants that can enrich your garden, provide habitat for butterflies, bees, and other pollinators, and help restore the ecology of your landscape. Sally also has a wealth of non-native plants and will discuss how to incorporate some of her favorites along with natives into an established landscape.