Nestled in a grove of Douglas fir trees on a backroad headed toward St. Paul, the Cecil and Molly Smith Garden is a colorful oasis surrounded by farmland.
With the weather slowly but surely turning from spring to summer, the garden is becoming an oasis amid farmland.
The nearly three-acre garden, operational for more than four decades, was the brainchild of Cecil Smith, a world-renowned horticulturalist whose signature hybrids adorn the terrain with more than 500 species of rhododendrons, camellias and other species…