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Havre home listed as Yard of the Week

From Bullhook Blossoms

Garden Club

Melissa Litzinger and Tom Scruggs' home of about five years on Pike Street is a work of creativity and imagination. They have arranged a red maple and a thornless cockspur hawthorne tree and a border of burning bushes in the front yard to blend in with more than 40 species of flowers that Melissa tends to on a daily basis.

Most striking are the canna lilies with blazing red blooms against the brick and coleus with leaves the size of softballs and color depths of summer twilight She has her favorite very aromatic heirloom hybrid tea roses, some in posts and some in beds.

Some old-fashioned varieties thrive - marigolds that attract oodles of bees and have a fragrance from our childhood days. Pansies and petunias are seen amongst all the plants, some of which are in pots.

Vegetable garden beds border the secluded back lawn with a profusion of ornamental small white pumpkins, sweet peppers, carrots, radishes, tomatoes and more blending smartly to shade cool-weather plants - three are snowball bushes, morning glories, beds of hostas and many other flowers meandering throughout.

Tom has a honeycrisp apple tree that has produced bushels of apples this year. Also there is a sweet sixteen apple tree, with an abundance of apples, which helps to pollinate the honeycrisp tree. A red horsechestnut tree with huge triangular leaves also seems to thrive in their protected backyard.

Melissa digs up her canna and begonia tubers and stores them for winter in their attached garage, along with many geraniums and potted rose bushes. She saves many of her plants' seeds along with purchased seed packets and starts anew early in her home for readiness in the spring for another season of color all over their deck and along the front of the house and every lawn-bordering spot imaginable.

Tom enjoys taking care of the lawn and trees, while Melissa takes joy in all of the flowers and garden beds. Their yard is a wonderful view to all who pass by and they both are proud to be the "green thumbs" that they are.

 

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