By Ruth Sloan Ashland Garden Club
Lisa and Marc Blackburn purchased the charming house at 946 B St. in Ashland’s Railroad District almost three years ago. Two years ago, they started relandscaping with help from Jane Hardgrove and Juan Meraz of Bearclaw Landscape Services. Now theirs is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for June 2017.
Lisa Blackburn’s instructions to designer Hardgrove were that she wanted a whimsical, fairy-tale garden that did not feature the usual deer-resistant plants such as rosemary, heather and lavender. The result is a charming, inviting space with lots of texture and color. A water feature provides pleasant sound. Marc does almost all the maintenance, averaging 10 hours a week in the garden and has started getting creative on his own,…
