A garden walk grows in Cooper-Young
The backyard garden of Angie Wallick (shown with dog Wally) will be featured in this year’s Cooper-Young Garden Walk on May 15-16. The walk will feature 90 gardens, including several hidden gardens. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Sharron Johnson has cut faces into a cactus plant. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Tommy Langston (left) and Jimmy Thomason stand in their back garden on Monday, May 10. It will be featured in this year’s Cooper-Young Garden Walk. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The garden of Angie Wallick will be featured in the Cooper-Young Garden Walk on May 15-16. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Kim Halyak is the organizer of the Cooper-Young Garden Walk. The retired teacher started the Cooper-Young Garden Club in 2015 and the Garden Walk in 2016. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Sharron Johnson sits in her garden, which will be featured in this year’s Cooper-Young Garden Walk. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
To reach Sharron Johnson’s “secret garden,” you follow a path she made by recycling the bricks from her chimneys when she converted to solar panels. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The backyard garden of Tommy Langston and Jimmy Thomason will be one of the 90 homes featured in the Cooper-Young Garden Walk on May 15-16. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Since the Cooper-Young Garden Walk started in 2016, the number of stops on the tour has quadrupled. “People keep upping their game,” says event founder Kim Halyak.
