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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.

Lady’s slipper orchid.

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.

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