ita Diekemper describes it as a “hobby gone crazy.” Others might describe it as gardening genius. In her own one-acre Frontenac garden, hydrangeas, boxwoods and viburnums anchor many of the...

When a neighborhood home became available as a tear down these homeowners couldn’t help themselves. They loved their Frontenac location. They saw the chance to buy the 2.5-acre lot and build the...

Growing up we bounced around a lot,” recalls Greg Meyer of Defiance, noting that his family’s moves often involved an apartment complex or a duplex. 

Two of the upsides of that time in his...

I like surprises!” declares Celeste Baxter as she strolls through her and her husband, Brent's, Frontenac garden. 

  She is surrounded by the rich sunset hues of hundreds of daylilies,...

I am a terrible artist. I can’t paint, I can’t draw and I can’t sculpt. But gardening has given me a creative outlet,” says Don Richardson. “I can put things in the ground and, hopefully, they...

hink Cinderella, My Fair Lady and the story of The Ugly Duckling. Joe and Cara Reinberg can totally relate to these transformational tales.

In their case the Ugly Duckling was the over one-...

    If gardens could be likened to gemstones, the landscape of Laura and Josh, featured on a recent Frontenac Garden Club tour, would classify as a sparkling emerald. From hydrangeas to hostas to...

“This is a gardener’s garden.” For Tom Phillips it was the ultimate compliment. Made by a visitor strolling through his landscape during the recent Frontenac Garden Tour, it provided a verbal...

Early in the summer Michelle and Dean Millonas knew they had succeeded. It was the day one of their daughters had 15 friends over to swim in their recently installed pool. With the pool...

It is hard for Brian Davies to remember a time when he wasn’t tending a garden. Growing up in north St. Louis County, he happily took over his parent’s garden. When he bought a home in University...

The journey to their dream back yard began with the homeowners of this Foristell garden visiting an almost-complete Bauer Falls project. Originally looking to install a small water feature on...

Mark Kalk and his partner Mark Lammert had a problem. More succinctly, it was a landscaping problem. They needed to fit a large garden full of native plants and flowing water into a much smaller...