Garden of the month surrounds home that was former one-room schoolhouse

GREENVILLE―The Clematis Garden Club has chosen the beautiful gardens of Judy and David Spring of McCafferty Road in Greenville as its Garden of the Month.

The centerpiece of their sprawling gardens is their home which used to be a one-room schoolhouse built in 1863. The schoolhouse was completely refurbished and the Springs purchased it in 1983.

Their driveway is lined with lilacs and peonies along with a stone path meandering through beds of lupine, bee balm, dianthus, daisies, yarrow, lavender, poppies, daylilies, flocks and iris.

A fence protects blueberry, strawberry, apple trees and many vegetables along with more fruit trees dotting the garden.

A back patio with a walkway leads to a lovely back garden behind the house including sedum, herbs, rudbeckia, iris and bleeding hearts. If that isn't enough, a hillside rock garden flowing downhill leads to a lower garden filled with more lovely flowers.

Clematis Garden Club made up of approximately 50 members from Greene, Schoharie and Albany counties, meeting on the third Friday of the month at American Legion Post 291 on Maple Avenue in Greenville.

For information, call Jean Horn at 518-966-4260.