2012 Garden Tour
Don and Clare Roos’s property was featured in the 2012 Garden Tour. It features a Japanese garden. (Photo courtesy of Don Roos)
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June 10, 2013
Northfield Garden Club will sponsor their annual Garden Tour from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on July 13, and from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on July 14. The gardens chosen blend art and nature with six resident artists using varied mediums.
While the tour could begin at any garden, Linda and Mark Brindmore off East Jefferson Pkwy, 445 Rosewood Rd., have a new yard with landscaping created out of a bare plot of land but now filled with trees, interesting rocks and flower planters. Artists Heather Lawrenz and Gary Harrisberger will be there, the latter featuring woodworking for flying friends.
Pat Allen at 306 Woodley features fairy gardens and much more. Her garage-studio-greenhouse built by the family houses her artist husband David’s framing studio. His work in watercolor and acrylic features small towns and nostalgia. This is also a Certified National Wildlife Garden.
T. J. Heinricy at 1728 Archibald Circle (off West Jefferson Parkway) renames his “lawn creatures” every year. Though T. J. is our city’s parks and street supervisor, he has had time to build a Koi pond, fairy garden, and add a beautiful variety of trees in his yard. Artist David Peterson will be there with vases and bowls shaped spontaneously at his lathe from native woods.
Lynn Vincent, just up the street at 414 Riley Dr., also has a National Wildlife certified garden which provides shelter, food, and water for animals year round. Many of her plants are family heirlooms. Emily Haskell works in whimsical ceramics, and she will be at this yard.
There are two lovely gardens near Nerstrand found on Hwy 246. The first is on the very east edge of town surrounding a beautifully restored 1880 farmhouse, owned by Sherry and Carl Richardson, 420 Kielmeyer Ave. NE in Nerstrand. “Lawn rooms” dot the lawn along with a lovely back patio. Patsy Dew will share her photographic prints of nature and her artist book journals at this site.
The second Nerstrand garden is that of Amy Voigt’s, 41229 Tenth Ave., just east of town. She is a landscape designer and project manager for Knecht’s Nursery. This garden is a “step back in time” with a split leaf silver maple and yet over 100 varieties of new plants. Artist Mary Felden features whimsical art of steel, rock, and stained glass.
The cost of the tour is $10, and tickets (in the form of a small poster with marked directions) are available at Knecht’s Landscaping and Eco Gardens, across from Econo Foods. Tickets are also available at each home on the days of the tour.
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Olson, tour chairperson, at 507-301-3396 or visit the Northfield Garden Club website: www.thenorthfieldgardenclub.org/sponsored-events/northfieldgardentour
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