Gardens & Green Spaces

A COMMUNITY PHOTO GALLERY

This virtual gallery and the companion photo installation by the same name (showing now through May 30, 2022)
complement the exhibit "The Tangled Roots of Wisconsin Gardening & Floriculture" (showing now through early July 2022).
Both the photo installation and the exhibit are FREE and accessible during open hours in the
Driftless Historium Kalscheur Family Foundation Community Room. Learn more here.

Vicky Rosenbaum, Town of Springdale.

Take a virtual stroll through the gardens and green spaces
of our Mount Horeb area neighbors.
Thank you to all who shared these beautiful snapshots.
We wish you a season of just-enough rain and warm-but-not-too hot sunshine,
and ample time to sink your fingers into the mind-and-body nourishing soils of the Driftless.

Community Contributors
Annie Beier, Mount Horeb
Rachel Belida, Mount Horeb
Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, Mount Horeb
Gina Pirrello Gauger, Mount Horeb
Emily Rose Haga, Blue Mounds
Lydia Haynes, Mount Horeb
Britta Johnson, Mount Horeb
Cheri Klunick, Mount Horeb
Carol Larsen, Mount Horeb
Lynn Messinger, Mount Horeb
Lori Midthun, Mount Horeb
Maggie Milcarek, Mount Horeb
Karla Ott, Mount Horeb
Jeanne & Steve Post, Mount Horeb
Vicky Rosenbaum, Mount Horeb
Mound Vue Garden Club, Mount Horeb
Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, Mount Horeb

Annie Beier, "My Backyard Sanctuary," 6th St, Mt Horeb, 2021.

Vicky Rosenbaum, Town of Springdale.

Annie Beier, "Waiting for guests to arrive for a pandemic gathering," 6th St, Mt Horeb, 2021.

Annie Beier, "A Bit of Peace in the Backyard," South of Main Street, Mt Horeb, 2021.

Annie Beier, "Evening Sanctuary," 6th St, Mt Horeb, 2021.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.
~Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

Annie Beier, "Beautifying the garage on Sixth Street," Mt Horeb, 2021.

Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, "Monarch butterfly on early fall asters in the prairie garden," Nesheim Trail, Mount Horeb, 2018

Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, "Bee Balm, Coneflowers line the vegetable garden fence," Nesheim Trail, Mount Horeb, July 2013.

Annie Beier, "A north corner garden off Main," Mount Horeb, 2021.

Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, "1890 Gesme/Nelson house, restored to 1920 appearance, Front yard entry," Nesheim Trail, Mount Horeb, July 2013.

Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, "View from kitchen into backyard, yellow bracketed coneflower, bee balm and old fashioned phlox," Nesheim Trail, Mount Horeb, 2019.

Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, "Ken Scott ready to pick concord grapes," Nesheim Trail, Mount Horeb, 2018.

Brian Bigler & Ken Scott, "Coneflowers surround antique weathervane on corner of backyard vegetable garden," Nesheim Trail, Mount Horeb, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Pandemic Project Picket Fence," Mount Horeb, 2020.

Lori Midthun, "Gardens in teacups," Mount Horeb, 2020.

Lori Midthun, "Sunset in the Garden," Mount Horeb, 2020.

Lori Midthun, "Patience brings the prize," Mount Horeb, 2018.

Lori Midthun, "Roses Climbing a Stump," Mount Horeb, 2021.

Lori Midthun, "Harvesting Kale," Springdale, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Heirloom black tomatoes," Mount Horeb, 2021.

Lori Midthun, "Monarch on coneflower," Mount Horeb, 2017.

Lori Midthun, "Prepping the Vegetable Patch," Springdale, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Harvesting Kale," Springdale, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Beets!", Springdale, 2020.

Lori Midthun, "Harvesting Kale," Springdale, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Oak Street Garden," Mount Horeb, 2019.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ~Rudyard Kipling

Lori Midthun, "Family Bean Hunt," Mount Horeb, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "A quiet place," Mount Horeb, 2018.

Lori Midthun, "Sunflower," Mount Horeb, 2021.

Lori Midthun, "Giant Sunflowers," Springdale, 2019.

Lori Midthun, Mount Horeb.

Lori Midthun, "Picking a bouquet," Mount Horeb, 2021.

Lori Midthun, "Vegetable and flower garden," Springdale, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Tiger swallowtail on pink phlox," Mount Horeb, 2019.

Lori Midthun, "Evening bean picking," Mount Horenb, 2019.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, Mount Horeb, 2020.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, "New Sign: Himsel Park," Mount Horeb, 2020.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, "Plot #5 facing East, end of Spellman St," Mount Horeb, 2021.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, "Neighbors Helping Neighbors Garden Plot," Mount Horeb.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, "Butternut squash growing outside the plot," Himsel Park, Mount Horeb, 2021.

If your knees aren't green by the end
of the day, you ought to seriously
re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, Mount Horeb, Aug 2020.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, Mount Horeb, 2020.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, "Dennis solo due to COVID," Mount Horeb, 2020.

Mount Horeb Area Community Garden, "Plot #21," Mount Horeb, Summer 2021.

Maggie Milcarek, "Front yard native plant pollinator garden," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Maggie Milcarek, "Zinnia border in the vegetable garden," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, Aug 2020.

Maggie Milcarek, "Squash arch over rows of vegetables," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Maggie Milcarek, "Fruit, vegetable and flower garden," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, Sept 2020.

And forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the winds
long to play with your hair.
~Khalil Gibran

Maggie Milcarek, 2nd St, Mount Horeb.

Maggie, Milcarek, "Pole bean teepee and squash vines," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, July 2020.

Maggie Milcarek, "Squash and Beans climbing a teepee and arch," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, Aug 2021.

Maggie Milcarek, "Front yard herb spiral," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, July 2020.

Maggie Milcarek, "Squash and Bean arch over rows of vegetables," 2nd St, Mount Horeb, Sept 2021.

Jeanne & Steve Post, Mount Horeb.

Lynn Messinger, Mount Horeb.

Lynn Messinger, Mount Horeb, 2018.

Lynn Messinger, Mount Horeb.

Cheri Klunick, Primrose country garden, Mount Horeb, July 2020.

Emily Rose Haga, "Mary Bollenbeck Haack, next to her grotto," Pine Bluff, between 1955-1970.

Emily Rose Haga, "Art Haack next to Grotto," Pine Bluff.

Emily Rose Haga, "Art & Betty Haack, around or after their 1951 marriage," yard grotto, Pine Bluff.

Emily Rose Haga, "George Haack and sister, about 1960," yard grotto, Pine Bluff.

Emily Rose Haga, "Emily and Levi Haga," relocated and reconstructed grotto, Arena, 2012.

Rachel Belida, "Veggie Companions," Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Rachel Belida, "Claire and Goldilocks," Mount Horeb, Aug 2021.

Rachel Belida, "Echinacea," Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Rachel Belida, Currants in Edible Landscape," Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Rachel Belida, "Who says veggies need to grow in rows?", Mount Horeb, June 2021.

Rachel Belida, "Peaches and Herbs," Mount Horeb, Aug 2021.

Rachel Belida, "Companion Planting," Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ~Alfred Austin

Rachel Belida, "Edible and Medicinal Landscape," Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Karla Ott, "Spring Side yard," Grove St, Mount Horeb.

Rachel Belida, "Kale!", Mount Horeb, July 2021.

Britta Johnson, "Cut Flower Beds," Mount Horeb.

Carol Larsen, "Zoe Amalie Larsen among the Muscari," Sunborn Gardens, Mount Horeb, Spring 2012.

Mound Vue Garden Club, First Weber garden, 2020 club scrapbook.

Barbara Lessner, Mound Vue Garden Club scrapbook, 2020.

Sandra Cannon, Mound Vue Garden Club scrapbook, 2020.

Sylvia & Vern Lowell, Mound Vue Garden Club scrapbook, 2020.

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy,
there is always the garden.
~Minnie Aumonier

Gerhard & Sonya Luetschwager, Mound Vue Garden Club scrapbook, 2020.

Gina Pirrello Gauger, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb, 2019.

Lydia Haynes, "Clematis and grass," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Creeping verbena in rock garden," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Looking north from road," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "East Yard," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb, 2006.

Lydia Haynes, "Collection of Sedums," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Hasta, blue, vase shaped," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Hasta, ferna & astilbe," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Prairie," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Yellow chrysanthemums in east garden," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Ginnala maple, New England asters and ornamental grasses," Blue Valley Road, Mount Horeb.

Lydia Haynes, "Looking west by road," Blue Valley Road, Oct.

Garden as though you will live forever.
~William Kent