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Website Extra: Borrowed landscapes between friends

April 29, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: The following are bonus photos from a profile of the Greanya and Byler gardens featured in the May 2022 issue of Michigan Gardener. To read the full story, pick up a copy of Michigan Gardener in stores or see it in our Digital Edition, which you can read for free at MichiganGardener.com.

photos by Lisa Steinkopf

**A mix of choice hostas, conifers, and small trees call this Greanya planting bed home.**

**‘White Wall Tire’ hosta emerges pure white in the spring. Then the veins turn green, and the leaves are all green by summer.**

**Siberian iris (foreground) and gas plant (*Dictamnus*, background).**

**Alpine baby’s breath (*Gypsophila aretioides*).**

**‘Bartzella’ tree peony is even more lovely with an allium (*Allium siculum*) growing up through it.**

**This collector hosta bed at the Greanyas also contains the dwarf ginkgo ‘Troll.’**

**The Bylers had enough room to add a weeping katsura tree (left) and a tricolor beech (right), which are well on their way to becoming statuesque specimens.**

**Skunk cabbage (*Symplocarpus foetidus*) is one of the first plants to bloom in the spring. Then a rosette of large basal leaves emerges after the flower.**

**The Greanya house and garden from the driveway entrance.**

A garden of rooms

May 31, 2017 • Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: The following are bonus photos from a profile of Elaine and Roy Smith’s garden featured in the June 2017 issue of Michigan Gardener. To read the full story, pick up a copy of Michigan Gardener in stores or read it in our digital edition, which can be accessed for free on our home page.

Elaine wanted on outhouse shed, so Roy built one. In the winter, it is a storehouse for the garden’s statuary.

A door opens into the insulator garden and is framed by ‘Limelight’ hydrangeas.

Three teapots have found new lives as birdhouses.

A trellis is a great place to showcase Elaine’s collection of enamel ware pans. The flower on the back wall is made from whisk brooms.

Elaine and Roy Smith ran an electrical line out into the wooded area of their garden so the sound of this bubbling fountain greets you on the trail.

A treasure trove of rare wild tulip photos

October 1, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Tulip lovers have a new website to explore: www.tulipsinthewild.com features photographs of rare wild tulip species in their remote mountain native habitats. The site follows a group of Dutch bulb enthusiasts on a two-decade quest to some of the world’s most forbidding mountain ranges as they find and photograph little-known tulip species in the wild.

Despite their genteel garden image, tulips in the wild are native to harsh landscapes in hard-to-reach corners of the world. They’re often found clinging to barren mountain ledges exposed to wind, cold and drought. The contrast of harsh habitat and colorful tulips makes for some breathtaking photographs, most shot in mountain ranges in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

The site features an interactive map where users can click on a region to view the tulips that were photographed there. A selection of expedition shots is included plus tulip images with a description of each flower and where it was found. The only frustration for many will be the fact that most of the tulips displayed still exist only in the wild or in a few private collections. So for now, the best view of some of the rarest tulips on earth is just a click away, at www.tulipsinthewild.com.