832 E. St. Joseph St.

Kathy Delfosse

Surprise! We have a bonus July Garden of the Month winner for you. With so many gardens in fine form this month, we couldn’t pick just two, so we picked three.

One look at Kathy Delfosse’s yard at 832 E. St. Joseph St. and it’s hardly a surprise that she says she loves to weed. We couldn’t spot a one anywhere!

Her husband handles the lawn mowing duties and leaves the gardening to her. You’ll find her outside much of the day during the growing season, always looking to add new garden areas or tending to all those pretty pots and hanging baskets. Many of her plants have come from friends. When she’s not weeding — and even when she is — she enjoys nature. She feeds the birds and loves seeing deer and other wildlife across the way in the area near the East River.

Nice work, Kathy! Congratulations on a job well done and for making it two July Garden of the Month winners in a row on St. Joseph Street.

850 E. St. Joseph St.

Steve and Dawn Murphy

Say hello to our second July Garden of the Month winners …

Steve and Dawn Murphy have been a gardening team at 850 E. St. Joseph St. since 1998. One look at their sprawling side yard that abuts the East River and it’s easy to see how they spend four or more hours a day tending to their gardens, which are filled not only with every perennial imaginable, but all kinds of pots and baskets with annual flowers.

With a buffet of bird feeders and many choices of birdhouses, it’s also a pretty great place to call home if you’re a bird. Or a garden gnome. Those little guys are tucked in all over.

The setting, with its many evergreens, has been a favorite place for their grandchildren to camp. How fun, right? One year, the Murphys even welcomed a Boy Scout troop as campers.

What a unique yard and getaway all in one, Steve and Dawn! Congratulations and thank you for embracing the natural beauty of the Village of Allouez.

2338 Jourdain Lan

Robb Mier and Tony Chanthasena

We have a beauty for you to kick off our July Garden of the Month winners. It’s the home of Robb Mier and Tony Chanthasena at 2338 Jourdain Lane, where annuals, perennials and a keen eye for design abound.

The two gardeners take turns each year choosing the color scheme and design of annuals planted in front of their 1950 home. This year, passersby are treated to billowy clouds of yellow and white from petunias and alyssum among the green of boxwoods and hydrangeas. It’s sunshine even a cloudy day!

A path of stepping stones weaves through shade-loving hostas and astilbes to a spacious backyard, where a rose garden interspersed with more annuals blooms in every color of the rainbow.

Robb is an interior designer who gardened for 20 years in the Astor Park neighborhood before moving to Jourdain and getting Tony in on the gardening bug. Between the two of them, they’ve transformed the once-overgrown property in just five years. Wow.

Congratulations, Robb and Tony. Thanks for sharing your creativity snd hard work to make Allouez beautiful.