And the winners are . . .

Updated: July 9, 2008 - 8:21 AM

It wasn’t easy to select the winners for this year’s Beautiful Gardens contest. There were so many standout gardens among the nominations that it was difficult to choose just six. After a bit of wrangling, our judges settled on these gardens:

Garden of Lee and Rose Hallgren, St. Paul.

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The sloping Prior Lake hillside where Jane and LeRoy Horn have carved 10 garden areas out of the shade; the 3 acres in Waseca where Marian Fischer tends wildflowers, annuals, hostas and more than 150 roses and grows grapes and apples for juice and cider; the urban garden of Lee and Rose Hallgren, who have turned their shady St. Paul plot into a formal affair; the mostly native garden of Lisa Taft, who has managed to attract a surprising range of wildlife to her New Brighton yard; the parklike garden of Bob Sauer, whose manicured greens wrap around his restored Arts and Crafts Edina house, and the Apple Valley yard that Lucy Pacieznik has turned into a kaleidoscope of color after 35 years.

We'll visit their gardens this summer and run their stories when the growing season is long gone.

Thanks to all who nominated gardens. We appreciate your time, effort and your obvious passion for gardening.

CONNIE NELSON