Member Garden Visit - Garden with Art in Old Briarcliff with Phyllis Carlyle - Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.

Member Garden Visit - Garden with Art in Old Briarcliff

Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.
(limit 25 guests)

This garden has not been open before to member visits. Your main takeaways from touring Phyllis Carlyle’s garden in Old Briarcliff will be seeing many native plants, a casual gardening style, and that this woman likes yard art! In 2015, she moved to her 1943 cottage-style home with a spacious but somewhat empty yard. Since the neighborhood was developed in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, it is full of mature trees and better than average soil. With a goal to have a lower maintenance landscape than her previous home, she has added many shrubs, trees and perennials to her yard, at least half of them natives. She keeps creating new mulched planting areas wherever grass doesn’t grow and mostly uses purchased and self-created yard art for pops of color instead of annuals.

This garden is located 5 miles north of downtown, half a mile south of I-29, and just west of North Oak Trafficway.

Exact address of the garden will be email to attendees the week before the Member Garden Visit.

You must have a valid Gardeners Connect Membership at the time of the event. Please see your renewal date listed above your name and address on your latest Gardeners Connect newsletter. Member Garden Visits are gardener led tours where you will learn about the the garden, plants and the techniques the gardener uses. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact and ask questions during the visit. Please be prompt and courteous to the gardeners and the garden and most of all enjoy.