UNION SPRINGS - The natural beauty and landscaping of several local gardens left visitors breathless Sunday during the Southern Cayuga Garden Club's Lakeside Garden Tour.
Those in attendance got a chance to view the outcome of several decades worth or work that residents, such as Union Springs' Todd Bundy, spent on their gardens.
“This is 50 years of family love and gardening,” said Bundy, who worked on the family-owned property with his parents, Glenn and Danna Bundy. “It's a family ordeal, we all love playing in the dirt.”
A quarter-mile long driveway dotted with minigardens of red, white, blue, purple and orange flowers of every shape and size led visitors to the family's lake-front cottage.
Susan Marteney and her 9-year-old daughter, Lydia, said the Bundy's gardening ability had given them inspiration for their own home.
“We have a little bitty fountain,” Marteney said. “We would like to have a big one like this but we don't have enough room. Ours only trickles, but this one just flows.”
The Bundy's three-foot fountain gushed water into a small pool surrounded by a small flower garden.
Elise Tamborski and Shirley Sherman said they would love to have a fountain next to their front porch, much like the Bundy's.
“You can tell these people put a lot of work into the lawn and the gardens to be developed like this,” Elise said. “They had to have some vision to do this.”
Terry Dewis said the Boxwood trees, roses, and Russian Sage lining the patio of his Cayuga home appeared to just fit naturally into the landscape and that no elaborate planning was needed.
“The house just speaks to you,” Dewis said. “The woods were already here and everything else just went with this setting.”
Arthur and Nancy Nelson said the renovations which Dewis and his business partner, Andy Casas, spent 10 years working on, had really turned the home into a local attraction.
The home was originally going to be torn down by the state and turned into a parking lot to give visitors easy access to the lake for ice fishing. George Fearon, a neighbor and fellow gardener, purchased the property in order to save it before selling it to Dewis.
For Fearon, gardening was a life-long passion that developed at a young age.
“I started when I was 8 years old when I got some seeds from a Cheerios' box,” Fearon said. “They use to have seeds in the box back then.”
For nearly 18 years, Fearon took that passion and used it to work on his lake house which is highlighted by a koi pond and a desert garden he made for his wife, Carol.
“Any day I had a free minute I was out here,” Fearon said. “It's a hobby. Some people fish and hunt and some people get their hands dirty.”
Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net
“This is 50 years of family love and gardening,” said Bundy, who worked on the family-owned property with his parents, Glenn and Danna Bundy. “It's a family ordeal, we all love playing in the dirt.”
A quarter-mile long driveway dotted with minigardens of red, white, blue, purple and orange flowers of every shape and size led visitors to the family's lake-front cottage.
Susan Marteney and her 9-year-old daughter, Lydia, said the Bundy's gardening ability had given them inspiration for their own home.
“We have a little bitty fountain,” Marteney said. “We would like to have a big one like this but we don't have enough room. Ours only trickles, but this one just flows.”
The Bundy's three-foot fountain gushed water into a small pool surrounded by a small flower garden.
Elise Tamborski and Shirley Sherman said they would love to have a fountain next to their front porch, much like the Bundy's.
“You can tell these people put a lot of work into the lawn and the gardens to be developed like this,” Elise said. “They had to have some vision to do this.”
Terry Dewis said the Boxwood trees, roses, and Russian Sage lining the patio of his Cayuga home appeared to just fit naturally into the landscape and that no elaborate planning was needed.
“The house just speaks to you,” Dewis said. “The woods were already here and everything else just went with this setting.”
Arthur and Nancy Nelson said the renovations which Dewis and his business partner, Andy Casas, spent 10 years working on, had really turned the home into a local attraction.
The home was originally going to be torn down by the state and turned into a parking lot to give visitors easy access to the lake for ice fishing. George Fearon, a neighbor and fellow gardener, purchased the property in order to save it before selling it to Dewis.
For Fearon, gardening was a life-long passion that developed at a young age.
“I started when I was 8 years old when I got some seeds from a Cheerios' box,” Fearon said. “They use to have seeds in the box back then.”
For nearly 18 years, Fearon took that passion and used it to work on his lake house which is highlighted by a koi pond and a desert garden he made for his wife, Carol.
“Any day I had a free minute I was out here,” Fearon said. “It's a hobby. Some people fish and hunt and some people get their hands dirty.”
Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net
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