Featured Garden

This section is meant to showcase some REAL gardens so that you can see how plants REALLY look when they're combined! I will be featuring different pictures throughout the season, so check back with us to view more!

Left to right: Carex “Ice Dance,” Hostas “Gold Standard,” “Abiqua Drinking Gourd,” and “Great Expectations.” Groundcover is Lysmachia “Aurea” (Moneywort)
Left to right: Alchimilla mollis (Lady's Mantle), Hosta “Fragrant Bouquet,” Polemonium “Brise d'Anjou” (Varigated Jacob's Ladder)
Garden 1 Garden 1 - A shade combo featuring Astilbes, Heucheras and Hostas ('Blue Cadet', "Great Expectations' and 'Cherry Berry')

Garden 2 Garden 2 - A close-up of Hosta 'Sum & Substance', Hosta 'Great Expectations', and Hosta 'Cherry Berry', with an Aruncus (Goatsbeard) in the back. This is a relatively new, immature planting-the Goatsbeard will eventually make a magnificent backdrop with feathery plumes (gotta be patient!)

Garden 3 Garden 3 - A combination of Alchemilla mollis (Lady's Mantle), Galium oderatum (Sweet Woodruff), Pulminaria (Lungwort) and annual Purple Basil that reseeds itself year after year in my yard. (A "gardening friend" is looking on!

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Contrary Mary’s Plants and Designs
2735 Route 52
Minooka, IL 60447
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