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Fall is in the air, literally if you consider the pumpkins atop Stewart Melrose's house in Fenton, Michigan, to be part of the season

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  1. America
  2. Autumn
  3. Color
  4. Digital Photographs
  5. Fenton
  6. Houses
  7. Melrose Gardens
  8. Michigan
  9. Stewart Melrose
  10. United States

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The Melroses consider their creation a community garden, open to all Stewart Melrose, an interior designer and historical preservationist in Fenton, Michigan, picked up a love of ornamental gardening from his father and mother, Howard and Sonya Melrose. Together, they created and regularly expand a remarkable garden beside the parent's home. It includes tropical flowers collected around the world, stacked stone piles called "cairns" (shown), and larger rock sculptures, one of which occasionally erupts with smoke like a volcano. The Melroses consider their creation a community garden, open to all Howard Melrose (left) and his son, Stewart, show off a remarkable garden in Fenton, Michigan. Stewart, an interior designer and historical preservationist, picked up a love of ornamental gardening from his father and his mother, Sonya Melrose. Together, they created the garden beside the parents's home. It includes tropical flowers collected around the world, stacked stone piles called "cairns," and larger rock sculptures one of which occasionally erupts with smoke like a volcano. The Melroses consider their creation a community garden, open to all Stewart Melrose, standing tall here, is an interior designer and historical preservationist in Fenton, Michigan. He picked up a love of ornamental gardening from his father and mother, Howard and Sonya Melrose. Together, they created and regularly expand a remarkable garden beside the parent's home. It includes tropical flowers collected worldwide, stone piles called "cairns," and larger rock sculptures, one of which (shown) occasionally erupts with smoke like a volcano. The Melroses consider their creation a community garden, open to all Stewart Melrose, an interior designer and historical preservationist in Fenton, Michigan, picked up a love of ornamental gardening from his father and mother, Howard and Sonya Melrose. 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