Feature Garden: A mature oasis of greenery and blooms
01 Apr 2016
SHADY. SUNNY. SERENE

This mature garden is an oasis of greenery and blooms that three generations enjoy.
By Carol Brock Kristin and George Karakehian are avid gardeners. One look at their lush, colorful landscape is evidence of this couple’s passion for plants. But getting their garden to that point was challenging, as graceful, mature trees bathed their Mapleton Hill lot in shadows. “We wanted to have spring-to-fall color,” George says. So when they added a patio to the backyard 20 years ago, they decided to redo the landscape, too. “We had somebody come in and literally scrape out the whole yard,” recalls George, a former Boulder City Councilmember and the owner of Art Source International on Pearl Street Mall. “Then they added about 8 inches of topsoil everywhere in the yard.” And though George’s shop sells, among other things, vintage maps, the couple didn’t have a particular map in mind for their garden. So they hired someone who did: landscape designer Dee Gustke. She hand-drew maps of the Karakehians’ proposed paradise. “They were exceptional; they looked like little works of art,” George recalls.

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