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    Sticklers for the English language would argue that gardens couldn’t compose music or sing. But then they wouldn’t have been to Ginny Mueller’s garden. It harmonizes with the land via streams that spill down the hillside with boundless joy and hums quietly in pools filled with colorful koi. It trills to the tune of a landscape interspersed with five fountains. There are crescendos in the stone steps that climb the hillside and staccato notes in the sharp boulders that give the garden its definition.

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    Creating beauty, attracting wildlife and sharing with family and friends is what gardening is all about for these Kirkwood homeowners.

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    Add variety to your garden by replacing your standby shrubs with these exciting alternatives.

    1. “Blush Pink Nandina is a compact, semi-evergreen shrub boasting pink-tinged foliage that turns brilliant red in fall and winter.” Christine Knoernschild, Passiglia’s. 

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    Jay Laux's Wildwood garden can easily be described in multi-syllabic superlatives. But on a hot summer day, when someone steps through the wooden gate and catches their first glimpse of the cool, green glowing landscape, the words you are most likely to hear are "Oooh," "Aaah" and "Wow." 

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    Spice up the front of the home or the side of a deck with a beautifully planted window box. Colorful and catching, window boxes can be filled with a variety of plants and flowers. Trailing plants make a statement by spilling over the sides. Check out local landscapers' favorite trailing varieties for window box planting.

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    June 1 – 7
    Deadhead bulbs and spring flowering perennials as blossoms fade.
    Thinning overloaded fruit trees will result in larger and healthier fruits at harvest time. Thinned fruits should be a hands-width apart.

    June 7– 13
    As soon as cucumber and squash vines start to 'run,' begin spray treatments to control cucumber beetles and squash vine borers.
    Plant pumpkins now to have Jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.

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