“Special Garden Spaces” 2024 Tour
These are just two of the six very personal gardens that will be on the River Park Garden Club’s fourth annual neighborhood garden tour, “Special Garden Spaces.”
The self-guided tour, Saturday. April 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will include six diverse River Park backyard gardens. Tickets are $5. Children under 15, free. (Children are welcome, but strollers will NOT be allowed in gardens.)
The tour will also feature a large garden made for entertaining as well as self-reflection. It has its own meditation platform. The smallest garden has a big heart with elegant plant vignettes that include pots handmade by the owner’s grandchildren. Antique farm equipment in another of the gardens, serves as trellises and interesting notes along with a large modern greenhouse filled with bromeliads.
Friendly koi in a pond surrounded by fruit trees, succulents, perennials, veggies and garden sculpture. A made-in-the-shade garden with an artist’s studio, summer outdoor living spaces and specimen Japanese maples.
Tickets may be purchased on the day of the tour, beginning at 9:45 a.m. at the ticket table located at 5457 Carlson on the Caleb-Greenwood School lawn. Tickets may also be reserved ahead by calling 916-454-5637.
The sixth garden combines exotic herbs, greens, vegetables, fruit trees and a beautiful rose garden. Everything in this garden is grown from seeds or cuttings! Talk about having a green thumb!
In addition to the gardens, there will be an artists’ boutique featuring garden-oriented art and crafts. For more information, go to: http://www.riverparkgardenclub@yolasite.com
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!
