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| From the April 2004 'Centenial Issue' of Horticulture Magazine is this Article "10 Gardens That Inspire Us"... "No, you won't find grand fountains, formal allees of trees, or a stately mansion at Gardenview. What you will find is 77-year-old Henry Ross, and the remarkable flowery garden he began creating in the winter of 1949 and still tends today. Situated on a long, narrow, 16-acre plot smack in the middle of an anonymous strip-mall wasteland. Gardenview is evidence of what one gardener can achieve with love, zeal, knowledge, and next to no cash. From March to May, the Spring Garden is washed with wave after wave of color, | in summer, the All Season Garden grabs your attention with texturally sophisticated bedding schemes of annuals and tender perennials. Everywhere, from April through October there are choice plants to be encountered, from the hellebores that Ross himself has bred to signature plants like Monarda 'Gardenview Scarlet'. Ross donated Gardenview to the public in 1961, and hopes to create an endowment that will keep the gardens going after he's gone. With luck, Gardenview will endure, but it will never have as passionate a steward as Henry Ross." written by Tom Fischer, editor of the Horticulture Publication |