Garden Walk Cleveland Heights: A photographic peek into a diverse array of resident gardens
Visitors toured the colors of Cleveland Heights last Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20, as 54 residents opened their private gardens for self-guided tours during the annual Garden Walk Cleveland Heights. FreshWater contributors Angelina Bair and Nicky Perhacs canvased the city last weekend, grabbing images of stunning gardens and landscapes.
The landscapes featured run from one extreme to the other—with formal, traditional English gardens and grandfather Greg Cook’s efforts to build an “adult treehouse” to impress his grandsons, to a natural display of some funky contemporary art and a paradise for Cleveland Heights’ chicken populations.
“My grandsons live in Boulder, [and] I told Finn when he was about two years old that I would build him a tree house,” recalls Cook, a Euclid Heights Boulevard resident. “He said he had never seen one because there’s only pine trees [in Colorado], and you don’t build tree houses in pine trees.”
Garden Walk Cleveland Heights was started in 2019 by Janet Kious, who in 2010 also founded Garden Walk Cleveland after attending Garden Walk Buffalo.
About the Author: Angelina Bair
Architectural historian Angelina Bair holds a master’s degree in library & information science from Kent State University. She has 16 years of experience working in archives, museums, and libraries and specializes in local architectural, historical, and genealogical research. Bair is currently working on a graduate certificate in historic preservation at Cleveland State University Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs.
