THE PERENNIAL GARDENS   

 The Seedums Garden Club of Cheboygan plans, plants and maintains the beautiful flowers and shrubs around the museum complex grounds.   The plants are a mix of annuals and perennials which include blooms for every season from the earliest crocuses and daffodils to late fall geraniums.   Planters are located at the front entrance to the jail/residence and the front entrance to Spies Heritage Hall.   Flower gardens include landscaping by the museum signs, along the front and side of the jail/residence and the memorial rose garden east of the log cabin.   Take a few minutes to sit on the bench and enjoy the view.

 In the spring of 2006, garden club members incorporated  into the gardens an area where a tree had been removed.    They added a lattice divider with clematis and climbing  roses and a wooden well filled with blooming wave  petunias.   A memorial rock and stepping stones are  prominently featured near the well .   This area has become  the focal point of the garden on the south wall.

 
Some of the perennial plants whose beauty enhance the grounds and that provide varying displays throughout the spring, summer and fall are: tulips, irises, coral bells, mums, peonies, hostas, day lilies, forget-me-nots, feverfew, bee balm, and naturally various seedums.   Leggy white liatrus simulate the white barred windows while tall yellow heliopsis form a ladder up the jail.  

Blooms are used for arrangements in the museum buildings.  Seedums members also cut and arrange flowers to be shared with Cheboygan Memorial Hospital Extended Care Unit, Hospice House and Cheboygan Health Care Center.