We all could take a page from Jean Marie Gallagher’s gardening handbook. She managed to keep her beautiful front-yard garden in full bloom through the relentless heat of July and August. The Gallagher’s yard at 410 E. Sprague Street was chosen as our Blue Ribbon Yard for August 2007!

The Gallaghers have lived in their 1910 Bungalow since 1998. Jean Marie says that her husband, Thomas, surprised her one day a few years ago, and presented her with the entire front yard to use as the flower garden of her dreams. In bloom at the moment are red and white Impatients, tea roses, Sweet William, bright yellow and orange Marigolds, orange Blanket Flowers and pastel Snapdragons… among others! The yard is framed by a tidy boxwood hedge, split by an ornate arch covered with a climbing rose.