Stanfill Garden
August 23, 2019 Garden of Beauty: Sue Briggs Stanfill and Sid Stanfill. Photo courtesy Sage & Snow Garden Club.
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Mary Ann Steele
August 30, 2019 Garden of Beauty. Photo courtesy Sage & Snow Garden Club.
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Gardens of Beauty
by Sage & Snow Garden Club
September 11, 2019
August 23, 2019: Sue Briggs Stanfill and Sid Stanfill
Sue Briggs Stanfill and Sid Stanfill’s beautiful yard has earned this week’s Sage and Snow Garden of Beauty Award. They have showcased the beauty of flowers with heirlooms from their parents and grandparents. Sue filled an antique manure spreader from her family’s ranch with potentilla, yarrow, and sedum. Another flower bed is decorated with pieces of wood from a very old oak tree belonging to Sid’s mother. A bed of petunias is planted in a wooden chicken feeder built by Sue’s grandfather, James Jorgensen. A plow used by Nels and James Jorgenson is the centerpiece of yet another bed of flowers. Sue uses many varieties of perennial flowers in her beds, including snow in summer and snow on the mountain, columbine, delphinium, sedum, and penstemons. The perimeter of their yard is surrounded by lilacs, currants, chokecherry, flowering plums and willows. Not only is their yard a colorful array of flowers, it also showcases their appreciation of family heirlooms.
August 30, 2019: Mary Ann Steele
Sage and Snow looks for innovative and interesting gardening projects, as well as beauty. Mary Ann Steele’s gardens and greenhouse on Steele Lane in Boulder fit all three categories. At 84 years of age, Mary Ann plants and tends 55 ranch lick tubs of vegetables in her outdoor garden and maintains a greenhouse full of tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers in 5-gallon buckets. Her innovative watering system consists of PVC pipe sections placed in the bottom of the tub to create a water reservoir. The pipe is covered with screen, then native soil and manure is placed on top. She extends a 2-inch PVC pipe from the top of the tub to the bottom to fill the water reservoir. The soil and plant roots absorb water via capillary action to keep the plants consistently moist. In the tubs, she grows beans, miners’ lettuce, carrots, kale, cabbage, broccoli, potatoes, green beans, cantaloupe, zucchini, peas, and barley. Mary Ann only grows heirloom varieties so she can save seed for next year’s plantings.
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