Garden #3  Connie and Dennis Zink  
1723 Portland Ave.  – Savanna

Connie and Dennis Zink’s passion for gardening is quite evident when visiting their lush gardens. The Zink’s, with the help of Connie’s uncle, Leroy Garien, have spent the last ten years transforming their double lot into a garden paradise.  The Zink garden has two large ponds, over 100 varieties of mature hostas, loads of perennials and many unusual and hard-to-find annuals.  Annual containers, such as lobelia, impatiens, petunias, and geraniums are among many of the plants Connie started from seed last winter.

Be sure to see the huge collection of tropicals such as banana trees, bird of paradise, angel’s trumpets, red hot hibiscus, and passion flowers that are over-wintered in the green house each year. The herb garden is a delight to the senses and the garden railroad will bring out the child in all of you.  Check out the fully-stocked potting shed and garden art that is interspersed throughout the landscape.

New this year, are two 4’ x 10’ “Square Foot Gardening” demonstration plots.  Learn the basics of this exciting concept here at 3 p.m. Saturday and repeated at 3 p.m. on Sunday.  There will also be a short discussion on “Lasagna Gardening” at these times.

Joe Hall, President of the “Cedar Valley Garden Railroad Society” will spend all day Saturday at the Zink Garden answering questions on “How to Get Started in Garden Railroading”.  Full presentations are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

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