Shoals Area Gardens

There are a plethora of beautiful gardens in the Shoals area as those who have toured them over the last several years are well aware. We invite you now to take a brief tour of some of our member's gardens.

This Shoals Men's Garden Club member has a greenhouse, as well as love of and a green thumb for orchids. He has quite a wide variety of orchids as can be seen from these photos of these beautiful specimens. Take a few moments now and enjoy the beauty and color of these gorgeous blooms.more

This Florence Garden was on our 2002 garden tour and has been developed using low maintenance garden techniques at their Hickory Hills home. The front lawn of Myers Zoysia with dogwood, Japanese Cherry, large boxwood, Japanese Holly, and azaleas make for a colorful spring. The lamppost is covered with red honeysuckle, more

This Shoal Creek Garden was featured in both our 1998 and our 2003 garden tours. It cascades down the hillside of this Shoal Creek home. complete with a wide variety of shade loving plants including a wide variety of azaleas, cammellias, and ferns. Primarily a shade garden it provides a living guide to "How to shade garden".more

This Muscle Shoals Garden, also featured in both our 1998 and 2003 garden tours, is a true wonder in the spring with thousands of azaleas and rhododendrons in bloom. The home, situated on the lake in Muscle Shoals is resplendit with color. Essentially all the azaleas were propogated by the owner and his love of nature is evidenced throughout his widespread gardens. more

This innovative Sheffield garden was one of our feature gardens in the 2004 tour of area water gardens. It begins with a view from the road of the mature lawn appropriate to the style of their 1918 home. A wide veranda style front porch with ferns and other exotic plants over looks the Tennessee River from a high bluff The first of many water features is found on the right side of the drive toward the rear of the more

This beautiful Little Cypress Creek Garden and nursery was on our 2003 garden tour. It contains many shade loving natives and is notable for the winding paths located high above the Little Cypress Creek. more

This Killen area garden was on our 2002 garden tour and is really a whole series of gardens covering two acres. The Country rose garden is alongside the road and many passersby don't realize the many additional gardens that can be found by wandering around through this maze of gardens. While the gardens were started ten years ago, more

This Florence garden and spectacular waterfall are located on Riveside a stones throw from ECM Hospital. Until 2007 this was simply a ravine where water rushed down to the river following heavy rains. But pause now and stroll down a path hewn from the hillside to gaze across at a roaring waterfall and enjoy the lazy day as you lounge among the beautiful oak leaf hydrangeas. more

Fifteen years ago this garden near downtown Florence was basically a large expanse of lawn with a few mature dogwood and fruit trees sprinkled about. Since that time, the owners have transformed their property into a lush garden retreat with hundreds of plants, specifically old garden roses, hydrangeas and camellias. more