Garden Tour

Jan invited me to go along with her on a Ashby Garden tour last week. We stopped at two inspiring places. These pictures are from Country Gardens B & B owned by Larry Zilliox who hosts PBS Prairie Yard & Garden. It's just outside the city limits near the Barrett road and the website for his B&B is Countrygardensonlakemina.com. There are two rooms on the lower level with a gorgeous view of numerous lakes below. We had a wonderful potluck here and watched the sunset.

There was a pretty rural landscape on the south side.

Koi pond and waterfall

The following pictures were taken from a residence in Alexandria just behind The Depot on Lake Agnes. The house is located on the original settled property just on the edge of what used to be a forest and prairie. The downtown was established on prairie and the Ojibway occupied the forest to the north. I had no idea this spot existed. The owner gave us a nice history lesson, a tour of the gardens and their home and then cookies and lemonade on the patio. It was very nice!!

This looks like a Napa/Sonoma picture!

This place is less than 1/4 mile from downtown. Do you know where it is?? I do now. Annette, you know the owner. He was the gentleman who chatted with Shirley about being 80 and owns the Alexan apartments. His wife was such a nice lady too-interesting people-they moved here from CA 5 or more years ago. He said CA is too crowded to retire in. His roots are in Mn as he went to school here as a child.