Grace Cottage is surrounded by supporters with so many different talents, and several of them are creating gardens that will enhance the lives of patients, residents and staff members for years to come.

Outside Heins Home, a community care home for 14 residents, Norm Flynn has created a beautifully landscaped garden, complete with a stone walkway for the oil delivery person! Heins Home residents greatly enjoyed watching the construction of the garden, which took place during a two-day period in May. It's between the Heins Home driveway and the dining room - come take a look.

Joan McConnel has been working hard on the Helen McConnel Lewis memorial garden, just outside the Hospice Room at the hospital. She's planting yellow, blue, white and green perennials, and would appreciate plant donations. The stone wall, built by Richard Anderberg, and the stone bench, created by John Evans, add to the garden's beauty. On another project, Joan has finished painting the fountain donated by the Otis daughters (located outside the entrance to the physicians' practices) and it's wonderful to have it here. Photos of the hospital during the 1950's show the same fountain in its original state.

Jim Florschutz has created a beautiful and fitting memorial to his wife, Karen Deininger, in the oval garden area outside the Hospice Room entrance. Jim designed and sandblasted the stone, which is shaded by a flowering plum tree and surrounded by sedum.

Ken Hoffman, Jodi Perkins and Joel Tidd continue to maintain and add to the Mollie Beattie Woodland Garden and the Garden of Grace.