Wonderland in Douglas, Alaska
For fifteen years Margaret Tharp of Landscape Alaska and Ginger Johnson have worked on Ginger's garden. The garden has been photographed for Sunset Magazine and featured as the best representative Alaskan garden in the full-color folio, Leading Landscape Professionals. Busloads of tourists pull over to the side of the road every summer to admire the incredible view.
From the first hints of spring when the earliest crocus and grape hyacinth emerge, through the spring rush of primrose and rock cress, into the glorious full-summer displays of peonies, monkshood, and lilacs, this garden is always appealing.
The garden was created from scratch; there was no previous garden to build on. Margaret and Ginger built the soil, shaped the grounds, blazed and constructed the trails and paths, and then planted the collection. There are hundreds of plants, all tended by one person. Ginger is the sole planter, divider, and caregiver of this scenic locale. She can be found at all hours in her garden, and the results are phenomenal.
