Saturday, June 8th, 2024 | 10am - 3pm

Enjoy this tour of various residential outdoor spaces in the St. Louis area and learn how to make your landscape more beautiful and easier to maintain throughout the growing season.

Don't forget to pick up your tour card and collect a stamp at each tour location to be entered to win door prizes!

Attendees can begin the tour at any location. Light refreshments will be offered throughout the tour.

Mark Kalk and his partner Mark Lammert had a problem. More succinctly, it was a landscaping problem. They needed to fit a large garden full of native plants and flowing water into a much smaller space. The reason why goes back a few years.

In 2010, then living in Compton Heights, they assembled four adjacent parcels of land into a one-third-acre site in iconic Lafayette Square, where they had once lived and still had friends. On that lot, they built a large, red brick townhome.

If you’re a gardener looking for a change, consider upgrading your garden with a raised bed. These above-ground planters help separate your garden from the rest of your yard and can add dimension to otherwise flat areas. Some standard items needed to start include soil, wood or the material you plan to use to create the raised bed, a shovel and a tiller.

Raised Ground Beds

An enchanting “misty emerald” hue gave one house in Pacific, a minty-fresh look via a siding and exterior project completed by Chesterfield-based Lakeside Renovation & Design.

Creating a meticulously designed space from a blank canvas is a unique challenge. Looking for someone to take on the challenge, this new homeowner reached out to Morgan Brown of Castle Design after a neighbor’s home was transformed with Brown’s help. “She saw my work, and liked it, and so we went from there,” recalls Brown.

By Griffin Enright Architects.

The library was designed as a room within a room. Raised two steps above the living room, the library allows views out into the garden beyond. Dark bookshelves fold around and up the wall onto the ceiling, contrasting with the light-colored floor and making the space feel larger. Photography by Benny Chan.

By Verner Architects.