Home Garden Walkabout Members Only
Gretchen Zuiderveen's home, 1771 Rogue River Rd NE, Plainfield Charter Township, MI, 49306 Map
Members Only Free Event Home Garden Tour Lots of Physical Activity
Long-time WORC member, Gretchen Zuiderveen and her husband George, hosted a garden walkabout at their home. A prairie garden out front, held orange butterfly weed that was gloriously in bloom, along with purple coneflower, common milkweed, and other species. The Prairie dock leaves were huge!
The right side of the house past fragrant sumac led to the park-like back yard with its huge boulders strategically placed in the garden. The boulders were found on-site when the foundation was dug for their house. The backyard has tall oaks and a dry stream bed that channels rain away from the house. The black cohosh were in bloom here and there. Lupine, bloodroot and other natives carpet the backyard.
Heading back to the front on the South side of the house was a carpet of moss in place of grass and then up stepping stones to a garden by the front door and a trellis of native clematis.