Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Garden Tour is a learning experience

Hailey landscapes embrace high-desert living


By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

The garden of Maria Dudunakis and Jerry Boesel is one of nine featured on the Hailey Garden Tour in the Northstar and Trail’s End neighborhoods on Saturday, July 24. Courtesy photo

The Hailey Garden Tour, presented by Friends of the Hailey Public Library, promises to be a one-of-a-kind summer stroll through some of the south valley's most original and fascinating gardens. This year, the tour will offer a peek into nine gardens, featuring an urban oasis, a pocket garden, a collector's spoils, a community collaboration, square-foot gardening, native landscaping, vegetables, green living and recycled materials.

The tour benefits the Hailey Public Library. It will take place Saturday, July 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are $20. For details, call 720-9714.

Besides showcasing the creative landscape ideas of Hailey residents, the tour includes the urban oasis of the Gateway Building on 613 N. River St., which has 10-year-old koi fish swimming and living in a pond with a slow-drip system. The pocket garden of Linda Barker on 521 Calumet Way is a small garden with big ideas, especially the many dwarf ornamental trees, including apples, pears, crabapples and lilacs.

< A collective garden by Maria Dudunakis and Jerry Boesel at 780 Northstar Drive features extensive irrigation and a variety of plants, paths and trees as well as a bird habitat. Dudunakis and Boesel are also the main proponents behind the Community Garden in the Northstar neighborhood between Angela Drive and River Street. The four-year old garden is the result of neighbors' working together.

Pati Meyer embraced square-foot gardening, a method of creating a portable and weed-free garden developed by Mel Bartholomew in a 1981 book and subsequent PBS TV series. Meyer's garden is at 720 River Trail. Jim Feldbaum, founder of GoNative, created a dry biome in the front of his home at 531 River Trail and will explain his land restoration ideas.

Susanne Conner and Scott Schnebly present a Good Dirt garden, which features a healthy vegetable garden made productive by Conner's composting. The Ritzau and Harned families on 361 River Trail built their home five years ago on the Little Indio Camp. The property now includes bees, chickens and a wetland. Finally, Mike and Debbie Hobart, who live on 360 ½ Little Indio Lane have The Alchemist garden, created from a seed collection and by rescuing plants.

The tour will have a lemonade stand, library lounge and information about gardening from the featured gardens. For details, call 720-9714.

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com




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