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Michigan Gardener | September/October 2021 | MichiganGardener.com
At this stop sign, cars pause longer than necessary to take in the beauty!
The garden at the corner Jeremy Locke and James Queen have converted property challenges into functional and beautiful garden solutions
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eremy Locke and James Queen moved also considered where their dogs liked to run into their corner-lot, ranch home four and planned the garden around them as well. years ago. At that time, there were a few (Sonya the cat didn’t have an opinion.) trees and shrubs including a ‘Crimson King’ Jeremy and James were Ferndale resimaple, which provides shade for the front dents previously and something they brought of the house, a redbud, an arborvitae, some with them from that garden, other than a boxwood, and a weeping mulberry. few plants, was the pond. (Well, Four years later, with the addition of it didn’t literally come with hundreds of plants and a lot of hard them—just the fish.) From their work, their garden is a showplace. experience at that garden, they When I first saw the garden, I was knew they wanted the pond to be amazed at how much they had done larger than the 1,000-gallon origiin just the past year alone. Jeremy, a nal. They found that the 20 fish landscape designer by trade, says the they started with turned into 100 landscape tells him what to do—or quickly, so in this new garden, the James does. They work well tofish are happily accommodated in Lisa gether as Jeremy is the designer and a 7,000-gallon, roomy underwater Steinkopf James is the builder. Jeremy said he habitat. To enable the fish to stay
Jeremy Locke (right) and James Queen are the designers and caretakers of this wonderful garden.
