RIVER PARK GARDEN CLUB, GARDEN TOUR 2023

Attention garden lovers! The third “Seven Special Garden Spaces,” River Park garden tour is just around the corner.

 The gardens on this neighborhood tour will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 22. Tickets ($5) will be sold on tour day at the corner of Carlson and Camelia. Tickets may also be reserved ahead by calling 916-451-4658.

 All seven gardens on this River Park Garden Club-sponsored tour, offer something unique. Look for the friendly dragon in the young-at-heart fantasy garden on the tour. And the immaculately kept garden (below). with a sense of history and humor. Marvel at the garden that replaced a huge swimming pool with a koi pond, edibles and magnificent Japanese maples(right).

 Shhhh. One of the gardens is a quiet nesting place for 12 soon-to-be ducklings and their parents. Another is a large family garden -- with an intact swimming pool, entertaining areas plus raised vegetable beds and fruit trees.

 Club members will be the official greeters in each garden, along  with the garden owners, who, don’t worry, will love talking about their special spaces.

 The Perennial Plant Club of Sacramento will bring well-tended plants to sell in one of the gardens and a group of artists will exhibit and sell their garden-centric paintings, jewelry, clothing and garden ornaments in another garden.

                                                                             By Pat B. Smith

p.s. We are looking for great gardens for our 2024 tour. If you know of one, please call 916-454-5637 with info. We need to see them in the spring!

         

RIVER PARK GARDEN CLUB, GARDEN TOUR 2022

River Park is a unique place. So it is no surprise that it has some very special gardens – most of which you’ve never seen, much less visited. 

 “Seven Special Garden Spaces,” the River Park Garden Club’s second neighborhood garden tour, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 23, will allow peeks into seven private backyard gardens of neighborhood homes. 

 The only-in-River-Park style landscapes and gardens on the self- guided tour will include a totally edible garden; a “whatever works” garden; a dog lover’s garden; a garden for a family with young children; a collector’s garden filled with succulents and antiques, and a family’s perfect entertaining garden, complete with a pickle ball court, pool, patio, kitchen and a clever vegetable garden!

The event will also feature a River Park Master Gardener answering questions from Noon to 1 p.m. in one of the gardens. There will also be a gift and plant boutique.

Tickets for the tour are $5 each. They may be reserved by calling 916-454-5637, or purchased on the day of the tour (cash only) at 5457 Carlson Drive (corner of Carlson Drive and Camellia Avenue).  Maps of the tour will come with the ticket. 

 

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