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2007 GPPA Event
Saturday, June 2, 2007 - 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. SAVE THE DATE Spring Garden Tour "Come Home to Your Garden Enjoy a visit to a dozen gardens in and around Atlanta. Each private garden on tour reflects each gardener’s individual vision of “home”. Cost: $30 - Includes all gardens and 2007 membership in the Georgia Perennial Plant Association. Click here to see 2007 Garden Tour Photos Click here for a detailed map to each of the tour gardens!
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- GARDEN 1 - The Garden of Maureen Kalmanson
Wrapping with grace around this 1913 Tudor home, the gardens are filled with perennials and blooming shrubs. Tender plants and fig trees winter in the two-story conservatory, and stone paths, imaginative sculpture, and several interconnected pools and waterfalls frame lovely garden pictures. The outdoor fireplace is original and typical of Druid Hills houses of this time period. - GARDEN 2 - The Garden of David Ellis
This intimate Virginia-Highland garden features many moods. The front flower garden offers soft colors that evoke calmness. The driveway area offers limited space for gardening, so the gardener has made use of every inch, including the drive median. Color schemes along the driveway progress from hot colors as one enters the drive from the street to mostly green as you prepare for the back garden with its strong Asian influence. - GARDEN 3 - The Garden of Lauren and Bill Schwarz
This Ansley Park garden was designed to provide visitors with a journey. The gardener refers to it as “an entire eco-structure with more than fifty varieties of Japanese maples, eight major waterfalls and four ponds.” It is a spiritual garden as well, designed so that those in the garden can rest anywhere along the path “and feel God’s strength and grace”. - GARDEN 4 - The Garden of Elizabeth Holt
This verdant retreat in the middle of Buckhead is a garden full of perennials, woodland ephemerals, boxwood parterres, and roses. There are many period garden ornaments and fountains as well as a summer house, which provides a breathtaking focal point to the entire back garden. - GARDEN 5 - The Garden of Toni and Joel Adler
The gardener here has a passion for all the major plant groups: woodies, perennials, vegetables, fruits, clematis, and more. His enthusiasm and gardening expertise are not limited by the space available. His jewel of a rose garden, for example, flanks a unique water feature. His vegetable bed is as beautiful as it is productive. A peaceful shade garden occupies the far end of the property in Atlanta’s Paces neighborhood. - GARDEN 6 - The Garden of Bill Hudgins
This home in Atlanta’s Mt. Paran neighborhood is surrounded by stone terraces and serves as a study in the use of container gardening. The multi-level garden features over 200 varieties of Japanese maples, many of them in pots. A hillside easement is utilized as a “garden” for many oversized potted plants and a tranquil creek flows through a woodland garden filled with ferns and a great variety of perennials. - GARDEN 7 - The Garden of Brencie and Richard Werner
Perched on a rocky ridge overlooking the hills that form the banks of the Chattahoochee River, this Sandy Springs garden features plantings for sun and shade, for beauty and for utility. The entire two acres are maintained solely by the owners and they’ve planned their garden with an eye to conservation of resources and self sufficiency. - GARDEN 8 - The Garden of Rosalyn Reilley and Jim Zakem
This three-acre landscape in Sandy Springs is carved into vignettes encompassing formal courtyards, shady herbaceous beds, a sunken garden inspired by Butchart Gardens, a perennial border, an antique rose collection, poolside subtropicals, and a Japanese tea garden. - GARDEN 9 - The Garden of Bernadine and Jean-Paul Richard
Five acres of beautifully restored naturalistic gardens delight the senses on every turn in this Sandy Springs garden. There are hillsides of color that include a garden house, labyrinth, gazebo, lily pond, multiple trails through the woodlands, and even a chapel, along with unusual vegetation. Throughout the gardens are many water features including fountains, ponds, streams and a waterfall. - GARDEN 10 -
The Garden of Anna and Verne Davis
Despite downsizing to a Sandy Springs cluster home on only a quarter acre, the Davises continue their love affair with roses. There are 171 rose plants mixed with clematis, snapdragons, ageratum, daisies, variegated leaf geraniums, begonias, and succulents. - GARDEN 11 - The Garden of Lisa Bartlett
Lisa says, “I have 5 acres of plants on a quarter of an acre lot in Chamblee.” She loves plants and she particularly loves those unusual plants that are dwarf, variegated, or contorted. Ideas for container gardens abound including a bog garden in a bird bath filled with native pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, and orchids. - GARDEN 12 - The Garden of Tim McDaniel
Truly the project of a plantsman, this winding garden in northeast Atlanta demonstrates what can be created in a relatively small space with a moderate incline and many vantage points. The garden provides a great example of dealing with heavy water runoff including a dry stream bed and a retaining wall that acts as a waterfall during downpours. |
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