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Garden of Beauty – July 14, 2025

Donna and Mart Morss’s exquisite flower and vegetable gardens earned them the first Sage and Snow Garden of Beauty Award for 2025. Their attached greenhouse features waist-high raised beds complete with a drip irrigation system. The beds are filled with tomato plants, raised by Donna, with exotic names like Black Krim, Black Russian, Black Cherry, and Kellogg Breakfast. Sprinkled in between the tomato plants were Kentucky pole beans, lettuce, cucumbers, nasturtiums, and marigolds. In front of the raised beds (to make more efficient use of space) were several varieties of sweet and spicy peppers planted in large grow bags. Outside the greenhouse were several large waist-high raised beds filled with carrots, peas, melons, onions, garlic, potatoes, radishes, beets, celery, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. In large grow bags and lick tubs placed near the irrigation canal, Donna grows several types of herbs which she dries and uses all winter. The garden wouldn’t be complete without rhubarb plants, raspberry and strawberry patches, as well as peonies, sweet William, columbine, borage, black-eyed Susans, and a beautiful type of Mexican sunflower called Mexican Torch. Inside her home, Donna has a grow room with an efficient system of vertical shelves placed at different heights to accommodate varying heights of plants, complete with LED lights, to grow her transplant seedlings for use in the greenhouse and outdoor gardens. During the summer, those shelves become drying racks for herbs. The Morrs’s gardens are a perfect example of efficiency, productivity, and beauty.