Zaretsky & Associates’ ‘Bark’ Garden Show Design Goes to the Dogs

The dog house was custom built using real stone, hand-cut to form the perfect house you see here. The mosaic inlay was made by Sharon Coates, of Zaretsky and Associates, in honor of her dog, Ariel, a beautiful and loyal Australian Shepherd who moved on to greener pastures just a month before this display was built.

Take a stroll through our Dog Woods, where we used seven varieties of Dogwood, including Red and Yellow Twig, Kousa, Cloud Nine and even the diminutive Bunchberry, a ground-cover Dogwood perfect for the shade.

The Bark-o-Lounger, custom made from barky slab wood and birch cuts, this bed is now being used by our pooch, Ripley.

The Memory Board. Of over twenty thousand visitors to the show, over two thousand of them remembered their beloved canine companions on this board; and we raised over $700.00 for Lollypop Farm, the Monroe County Humane Society.

One of the three glass bead boney inlays in the pathways.

A view from the exit, looking back into a very special garden: Bark