Hermann Garden Tours Featured Several Area Homes

This year‘s Hermann garden tour highlighted seven local area homes ranging from downtown Hermann to all the way in towards New Haven. Tickets for the garden tour were purchased at Topiaries Garden and Gift Shop in downtown Herman and this year‘s tour was slightly scaled down from previous year’s tours.

Certain area homes and public spaces were featured with each one having its own unique character.

The Duetschheim State Historic site featured a vegetable garden that was much more common to German settlers in Hermann than the traditional flower garden. Katy Holmer, historic site specialist, remarked that the Germans were much more practical with their gardens and that they grew fresh vegetables for their meals and for later canning.

The Hermannplatz Garden, which surrounds the statue of Hermann as you enter the city on Highway 19, was also a stop on the tour and displayed many annuals and perennials in their charming public Garden.

Just down the street at 204 Market St., a private home which was once a well-known BnB, featured their memory garden that was planted with various plants and trees to honor and remember friends and family who had passed away.

Further down the block at 216 W. Second, another private home featured a mix of vegetable garden and flower garden with a delightfully bright red garden shed and brightly colored trellises.

The tour was then directed outside of downtown Herman to Highway Z, south of Hermann for a house that included beautiful flowers surrounding a water feature and a very large vegetable garden.

The sixth stop was the home of Julie and Tommy Griesedieck which is their renovated historic Lyon School house that had a very colorful flower garden as the entrance to the front of their home.

The tour concluded with the beautiful landscaped Windy Hill cut flower farm and the home of horticulturalist Mary Fritz. Her grounds were surrounded by many flower beds and decorative features.

The weather was marvelous and a steady crowd viewed all of the featured homes, cheerfully and appreciatively.