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| Carmel Tysver | I live in an area where the soil is reedy peat and did not have much luck in growing alpines. I started building hypertufa troughs about 7 years ago and have an area of troughs that is growing every year. The rock garden consists of mostly Alaskan natives. The rest is an eclectic mix of what ever strikes my fancy. A friend calls it natural. My husband is a rock hound so I have incorporated many of his rocks in the garden. |
| Wasilla | |
| Doug and Florene Carney | This garden is in its third year and beginning to mature. The rock garden is over 80 feet long with a pond and waterfall at one end. Throughout the garden you will see other water features as well. There are many surprises in the Alaskan gardens, including Meconopsis of almost every variety. We are avid experimenters and have discovered many plants from China and Siberia that do extremely well here as well as a few zone five plants that don't seem to know they are in a zone 3+ garden. You are welcome to wander the entire area (over three acres under cultivation) where you will find vegetable gardens, berries, perennial beds, and many hardy roses. We look forward to having visitors in the summer, so please stop in if you are in the Matanuska Valley. |
| Jaime Rodriguez | Tinker's Garden is a new garden (3 years old) on a one acre plot of land in the foothills of the Talkeetna Mountains in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. The garden is growing, being claimed one square foot at a time from rugged forest and meadow. The garden consists of mixed perennial beds, an alpine rock garden, a vegetable plot, plus a small greenhouse. The garden features over 300 species of hardy perennials, bulbs and wildflowers, most grown from seed. In 1998 a woodland garden and bog garden will be added, and the rock garden expanded. Hardy perennials are available for sale. Best time to visit: June through August. |