Summertime Blues

Thanks to our sponsors for this garden: Paradise Ponds & Waters Hardware & Garden Center

Owners: Steve & Sherry Sammons

Address: 845 E. Minneapolis Ave.

Plan to shop! Vendor at this garden: Second Chance Design by Mike & Sandy King

Highlights you’ll see:

  • Focus color: cobalt blue. Note: look for blue bottles that capture bad spirits
  • Pond with fish
  • Berm with Kansas natives
  • Vegetable garden with raised beds and sofa
  • Grow bags
  • Tomato cages to keep hosta leaves up to keep slugs off
  • Cloche over plants to protect from dog and rabbits
  • Irrigation and drip system, including containers
  • Yard art
  • Fairy gardens
  • Elf garden
  • She shed and garden
  • Party bar

Things NOT to miss:

  • The grow bags used for potatoes, onions, and garlic
  • The irrigation system
  • The little groupings of whimsical plants and décor
  • The renovated and enlarged pond

Gardener’s Favorite Plants:

  • Combo of hostas and heuchera (coral bells)
  • Peonies
  • Small baskets and large pots of flowers that change every year
  • Tomatoes

Challenges:

A small garden area and backyard. Making the most of the small spaces by growing vertically, horizontally, on arbors and in bags. We put in irrigation lines on digital timers. What a life saver!

Gardening Tip:

Don’t be afraid to try something new. I put flowers in a canvas bag and hung the bag on the fence. It is still a favorite!

How would you like someone to describe your garden?

  • A variety of plants, both annuals and perennials
  • Lots of ways to grow plants
  • Fun areas – the elf garden, the she-garden, the pond
  • Fun, eclectic, and colorful

Educational Handout:

Gardening in grow bags

Gardening in grow bags