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Lane and Paula Winter
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 | Gardening together
Lane and Paula Winter, who've been married 33 years, created their garden literally from scratch. "It's a family project," says Lane. Here they are in their main attraction, a water garden nook on the east side of the house. "People are always stopping by to look at it," he adds, "and we're happy to talk to them about it."
|  | Creating the garden
Lane says that creating the garden took an average of about 6 or 7 hours a day for around 20 days. "The hardest part was gettin' it all dug out. You work on it for a little while then you quit." He underscores the need to have a solid plan for such a project. "I spent a couple of weeks doodlin' on paper. When you get your mind down on what you're gonna do, it goes pretty fast."
|  | A living garden
The Winters take special pleasure in the McGregor school kids' interest in the garden. "They stop and look at it on the way home," says Lane, "and we get parents in the mornings who are dropping their kids off. They come over and look. Then I have to get out here and show 'em the fish." The fish are five koi in the bigger pond. The lower pond contains a crawdad his 10-year-old grandson Matthew caught. |  | Stress? What Stress?
The garden in front includes a large rosebush with pink blooms at left, a sidewalk border of hibiscus, begonias, mums, and more, and another water feature. the Winters especially love the sound of the water. "We like sitting out here in the evenings," says Lane. "It's quiet and you get sleepy. You can get your stress taken care of with something like this." |  | A closer look
The second water feature, barely visible here as a small fountain of water at right-center, is in a buried 20-gallon barrel. The barrel also contains "about" 10 bluegill that Lane says grandson Matthew catches "out at Fellows Lake." Lane plans to plant some donated roses and other plants "to spruce up" McGregor School's property. He also plants to add another above-ground water garden near the fence.
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