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The yearly tradition of showcasing

Battle Creek area private gardens

to the public returns July 20 and 21

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. when seven

locations will comprise the 31st

Annual Summer Songs in Flower

Garden Tour.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $

the days of the tour and all proceeds

benefit the Leila Arboretum Society

(LAS), said Garden Tour Committee

Chairperson Sue Stetler.

“It’s a wonderful way to support

gardening and gardeners in our

community and it’s a fundraiser for

LAS,” said Stetler. “We also are very

passionate about gardening, all of us

so it gives us a chance to see other

people’s gardens.”

The event features a variety of

big and small gardens ranging from

meticulously landscaped flower and

plant beds to one vegetable garden-

ing operation.

“We have the Sunlight Gardens,

which is a very different thing for us

this year, which is about food and

maintaining the soils and a new kind

of attitude toward gardening, not just

for flowers,” she said, “and we’re

really excited about that.”

31st ‘Summer Songs in Flower’

garden tour July 20-21 in Battle Creek

Features of the Clouse Garden in Battle Creek include a path to an arbor,

large bench swing, shade garden, water fountain, pudding stones and a

large planted berm with a seating area. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

Stetler is happy to be broadening

the scope of what is gardening on the

tour.

“Some of the younger folks today

are more into where does my food

come from and ‘how can I grow

some in my own yard?’” said Stetler.

“So, I think Devon’s gardens will

give folks and opportunity to learn

and see and get some ideas about

how to do that.”

LAS is a non-profit organization

tasked with helping to maintain the

85-acre arboretum as well as its own

property at the Kaleidoscope Garden.

“All non-profits have to work from

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