Spring Home Magazine 2011

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The home of Mary and Jerry Schutz, photographed by Thressa Johnson.

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Jerry and Mary schutz spent years creating their dream garden. Time to enjoy.

Don steinmetz fi nally has gotten to grow his own gardens, after waiting years for the opportunity.

There are several ways to brighten up a room, and your day, with just a few minor, inexpen-sive changes.

get ideas for what fl ower would look and grow best in what conditions and what colorful beauty each can bring to your gardens.

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When Mary and Jerry Schutz purchased their Pickerel Lake property in 1981, it barely resembled the cozy cottage sur-rounded by lush greenery sitting there today. “It was a mess. No one had lived here for at least four years,” Mary said, adding that they had to have the grounds plowed due to their terrible condition. That same year, the couple moved from Fargo to Billings, Mon-tana, so after initial work on the new lake house, they spent only a couple weeks there each summer, leaving little time to genuinely devote to yard work. “We’d come back and it would be full of weeds,” Mary said. But after moving to the property permanently in 1997, “we got

“We got serious about gardening”

Story & Photos: Thressa Johnson

TOP:Field stones create terraces in the schutz garden. Jerry picked, hauled and placed all the stones himself.

ABOVE:A sculpture in the schutz garden.

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serious about gardening,” she added. Her husband, a gar-dener since youth, had gar-dened everywhere the two called home over the years, making it a natural choice to do the same at their latest residence. But it was Mary, who didn’t begin gardening until her 40s, who drew up the plans. “I had a dream of what I wanted out there,” she said. “She laid the whole thing out,” Jerry contin-ued, adding, “I thought she was nuts.” “I’m the dreamer and he’s the worker,” she laughed in response. Looking at their garden now, a vast arrangement of festive flora with wooden paths weaving through and interspersed by artful touches, rock outlines and a miniature waterfall tinkling toward a tiny pool, it’s easy to imagine the blueprints were slightly overwhelm-ing.

ABOVE:Boardwalks take people through the gardens, past all the beautiful flowers and natural habitat.

RIGHT:Jerry and Mary schutz drew up plans for what they wanted their garden home to look like and then worked for years to get it just like they had dreamed.

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But Jerry, who had an architecture firm, and Mary, a former interior designer with experience under a florist, successfully turned their garden into the sort neighbors gaze at in wistful envy. “If you know anything about gardening, you know it con-stantly changes,” Mary said. Some staples in the Schutz garden include hostas, peonies, bleeding hearts, day and Asiatic lilies, tulips, daffodils, daises and lots of irises, although their fellow flowers vary. Although it’s “primarily a flower garden” according to Jer-ry, vegetables, herbs, grasses and trees add to its unique consis-tency. “Jerry laid all the rock – hauled it, picked it, placed it,” Mary said, adding that he built the trellis that stands as one of several entrance points. With 6-8 hours of upkeep a week in Mary’s Garden, coined for its replication of her vision, the couple has put plenty of time and effort into creating their floral oasis. However, that’s not to say that they haven’t experienced their share of unpleasant predicaments throughout the pro-cess. “Deer are a problem here,” Mary said, referencing the fence they apply a

TOP:Jerry and Mary schutz’s pickeral Lake home.

ABOVE:A small waterfall trickles into a pool in the schutz garden.

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TOP:Flowers in the schutz garden.

RIGHT:Walking paths wander their way through the garden.


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“We’re very high above the lake, but all the property around us is higher,” Mary said. “The boardwalks (in the garden) were all floating. It was a mess.” Luckily, the effect on the plants wasn’t significant, and after pumping the water out, everything settled safely. “Most plants don’t like standing water,” Jerry said. “Some of (the garden) was designed to keep the water out.” And then there’s the gardener’s continual battle: weeds. “It’s hard to walk through the garden and not pull a weed. They grow as well as the flowers do,” Mary said. As far as advice for other would-be-gardeners, “Get your wife out to help every once in a while,” Jerry advised with a chuckle. The couple suggests sharing and trading plants, something they do often with their son in Colorado. “We have some irises that he gave us years ago,” Mary said, adding that though some plants won’t take due to climate difference, “irises work well back and forth.” Contrary to popular sentiment, Jerry recommends that you “be rough with your garden,” taking charge of plants, separating them – especially self-spreading perennials – and sharing extras with others. Its days as a plowing nightmare long passed, their labor has allowed the Schutzs to reap much enjoyment from Mary’s Garden, making it a literal dream come true.

TOP:The schutz deck high above pickeral Lake.

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Most parents instruct children to eat their vegetables; Don Steinmetz’s dad taught him how to make them grow. “My dad had a big garden when I was a kid,” Steinmetz said, noting that he enjoyed helping. But until moving to his current home on North Shore Drive about eight years ago, he hadn’t had a garden of his own. “That was just a patch of dirt when we moved in,” he said, gestur-ing to an impressive array of leafy greens, “so I got started.” To supplement the education from his dad, Steinmetz studied gar-dening by the book. “I read a lot of gardening books. This is the best one I’ve found,” he said, flipping through Edward Smith’s “The Vegetable Gardener’s


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TOP:Don steinmetz’s vegetable garden on north shore Drive.

ABOVE:Don steinmetz measures his corn last summer.

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TOP:Flowers add a splash of color to Don steinmetz’s vegetable garden.

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TOP:Corn grows tall in the steinmetz garden last summer.

ABOVE:Tomatoes ripening on the vine.


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simplest pleasure: sunlight. “Very few vegetables grow good in the shade,” he said. “Shade is a killer.” He mentioned that 2-3 extra hours of sunlight each day is a huge help to vegetables, making loca-tion key. In plans for the future, Steinmetz hopes to fur-ther incorporate the greenhouse he began using three years ago to start strains. “When I retire I would hope to enlarge it and grow a few things in it, just to extend the growing season,” he said. His other ambition is a little trickier. “My goal: oranges,” he said, pointing out a pot-ted plant with tiny green globes hanging from its branches. Since bringing two orange plants home from Florida, Steinmetz has balanced them between being inside and outside, trying to maintain humid-ity. Even for the nonnative plant, Steinmetz has high hopes – and the gardening expertise to back them up. But it’s not his green thumb that gives him away; it’s his dirt-adorned knees. “That’s the difference between a guy who talks about gardening and a gardener,” he said. Judging by his muddied knees, it’s crystal clear Steinmetz is a gardener through and through.

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There are many different plants that begin to show their colors in the spring. A number of perennials, annuals and trees begin to flower or show new sprouts come the springtime. Here are some plants that can be planted for springtime enjoyment.

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* Gypsophila: Also known as baby’s breath, these delicate flowers can serve as filler in any landscape. Pink and white varieties are available.

* Impatiens: One of the best-known plants for the garden, these annuals come in scores of colors and can generally tolerate full sun to full shade.

* Larkspur: Belonging to the buttercup fam-ily, these flowers bloom in shades of white to violet.

* Pansy: These flowers are some of the ear-liest spring bloomers, arriving alongside spring bulbs like tulips.

* Petunias: Petunias put on a show of color through the entire season, making them a popular bedding flower.

PERENNIALS

These plants will come back year after year and offer spring shows.

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* Columbine: These beautiful blooms attract butterflies and can be a nice part of a garden bed.

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* Primrose: These flowers come in a variety of shades, making them versatile in any garden. They also tend to attract butter-flies and hummingbirds.

* Sweet violet: These fragrant flowers are edible as well as at-tractive. These plants can self-plant, so unless a gardener wants them to spread, they should be kept contained.

* Sweet violet: These fragrant flowers are edible as well as at-tractive. These plants can self-plant, so unless a gardener wants

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