2015 Sage & Songbirds Garden Tour Garden #5 – Chill-out in an Artist’s Cozy Casita with Talking Parrots

2015 Sage & Songbirds Garden Tour Garden #5 – Chill-out in an Artist’s Cozy Casita with Talking Parrots

    Chill-out in an Artist’s Cozy Casita with Talking Parrots In most gardens, art plays second fiddle to the plants.  But not in THIS garden where artwork abounds on every path, waiting to be “discovered.” When Mike Monfort retired 11 years ago, his wife Kathy suggested they transform their property into “an art project”. Mike, who holds a master’s degree in art, seized the challenge, and took it a step further. He created the garden to be “a visual experience…a trip in discovery,” he says. “The whole point is not to ‘notice’, but to ‘discover’,” he said. Mike knows…