FARMINGTON – Roger Bisaillon and his wife, Sue, have nurtured a yard of gardens, each with specialty plants and flowers, accented by pieces of granite, sculptures, rocks and small ponds.

The front garden, hidden from Route 156 by a tall, white fence, still has some colorful flowers left despite the killing frost.

The couple have been reclaiming the land, beautifying it and making it their own, since they bought the property.

“The property just happens to be a beautiful piece of property that we have brought back,” Roger Bisaillon, a sculptor and potter, said Wednesday. The yard was named Yard of the Month for August in a program sponsored by Rocky Hill Landscaping & Nursery in Wilton and the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce.

There are no weeds in this yard.

“I do a lot of hand-weeding. I crawl around on my hands and knees,” he said. “We are a team. I do a lot of the design. I move things around. (My wife) does most of the mowing and pruning. She keeps things clean and neat.”

Bisaillon continued walking through the yard pointing out special features including datura, sometimes called an angel’s trumpet because the white flowers are shaped like a trumpet, and a large Caster bean plant.

Both are highly poisonous, he said, but absolutely beautiful.

He prefers big flowers.

“I’m from the city. I started with a little garden, 10 foot by 10 foot and I thought it was huge. I really did,” Bisaillon said. “It thought it was the big cheese. Now it’s 2 acres worth. It’s a lot of gardens and my wife mows 12 acres. It’s a hobby. It keeps us in good shape.”

He considers it extreme gardening.

“I did everything by hand … I do everything with a shovel,” he said.

Two large rare, bluish-green, semi-translucent volcanic glass-formed rocks sit on opposites side of a walkway in a garden.

“We collect rocks,” he said, as he picked up a piece of amethyst that he had put on the porch to put away for winter.

“I love granite. There are probably 60 pieces in here,” he said, including a slab from the old porch.

The house is 150 or so years old and has a lot of spirit, he said, which has been incorporated into the gardens.

A large metal-sculpted calla lily hovers above another garden.

Broom corn hangs from a stalk nearby for the birds. A rust-colored metal sculpted fork springs tall from the ground with a black, metal crow on the tip of a tine that Bisaillon referred to as “eating crow.” A weeping tree is nearby.

A sculpture of several straight poles with round shapes atop it rise from the ground off in a field. Adjacent to them is a pole zigzagged in shape topped with an arrowhead.

“It’s all about being different from the crowd,” he said.

It’s the tranquility and beauty of yard that keeps the couple close to home in the summer.

“There are no phones out here. It’s great. It’s mine,” Bisaillon said. “I don’t share it much. We actually enjoy the garden more at night. You do the work in it during the day. Our biggest problem with the garden is we don’t leave it in the summer because we like it too much.”