Garden on Magnolia Ave

Gardener’s Tour 2026

Myron Greer & Jeff Turner

We started our garden in 2005 with boxwoods, hydrangeas and azaleas. In 2012, we introduced a plethora of Japanese maples and perennials. After becoming exhausted with heavy irrigation needs, we began adapting to a sunnier, dry environment in 2023.

Each side of our home is surrounded by structural screening plants with its own unique growing condition. This gave us the opportunity to experiment

with very different plantings while still creating a cohesive bond between each garden area. The entry garden has sunny and moist conditions ideal for our perennials, herbaceous plants, and bulbs. The front right side is an extremely dry environment featuring an alpine garden—boulders, native and hardy agave, succulents, and native drought-tolerant perennials. Large stepping stones connect to the side shade garden and lead into the sunny back strolling garden.

One of my favorite areas is the entertaining garden with an outdoor fireplace and patio nestled in among fragrant viburnum in the spring and sweet box in the winter.

This year, we had a few favorites from the Gardener’s Tour, which is hosted by Winghaven each year. We’ve been going for the past few years, and I’ve shared about some of our favorite gardens both large and small, that we’ve had the chance to see during the tour. The tour itself takes place right around my mother’s birthday each April, making it a perfect gift.

The garden featured in todays post is located on Magnolia Avenue, and all of the gardens featured on the tour were clustered around the same area just minutes from uptown Charlotte.

Seeing these variegated hostas off the drive warmed our garden-loving hearts from the start. We have only a few hostas that have survived the deer and rabbit population, both of which have diminished over recent years, but they keep coming back each year in our fairy garden just off the right side of our driveway nearest the garage… and we actually had our first bloom this year.