Dale Sievert, Waukesha, WI

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“I want visitors to my garden to discover how mosses can give them a whole new repertoire of plants to use in their own gardens. It took me until age 62 to discover that; I hope others can find it earlier in their lives.”

DALE SIEVERT Waukesha, WI

Dale Sievert’s passion is moss. Also a talented landscape photographer and a retired college professor, he has visited 106 countries and found ideas for his own garden in many of them. His one-acre property in Wisconsin includes several shade gardens containing 700 hostas and other perennials selected for their foliage. He has many moss gardens, some in containers or on mossy rocks, and three water systems in the water garden. There is also a Japanese-style garden, a cactus and succulent garden, a sunken garden, a hillside garden, and a Williamsburg-inspired formal garden. Five thousand antique bricks and 2,000 antique cobblestones were used for walks and planters. All trees are deciduous in order to blend with nearby wooded areas.