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Birmingham Botanical Gardens
2612 Lane Park Road
Birmingham, AL 35223
May 3rd & 4th, 2008 - Glorious Gardens Tour
“Glorious Gardens”
WEATHER UPDATE
The Glorious Gardens Tour is still scheduled for today from 10-5 p.m. - If anything should change, we will post that information here.
Seven homes and one urban farm will showcase their exceptional
This popular garden tour benefits The Gardens’ educational mission and allows the public a unique glimpse into gardens that offer tranquility, privacy and clever use of limited space. The tour will feature gardens in a variety of styles, sizes and scales, offering an exceptional way to educate visitors in intimate settings.
Admission is $25 per person and grants access to all the gardens on the
Admission tickets may also be purchased by calling 205.414.3965.
Featured Gardens:
1. Katherine & Garry Ard
This private garden is arranged in seven outdoor rooms: porch, pool, pool house, terrace, orchard, alley and parterre. The garden rooms share a common system of proportions with the house. Street-front plantings, which replace a storm-lost grove of trees, re-establish a neighborhood connection.
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2. Ann & Lucian Bloodworth
The Bloodworth garden was created and installed in 1997 when the existing residence was renovated and expanded. This garden features a formal lawn surrounded by a gravel path with a unique wall fountain as a focal point and serves as a screen for the generator and a/c unit. Stacked stone walls and dwarf boxwood hedges lead to the front door of the residence. Other highlights include a rose adorned arbor, beech trees and camellias.
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3. Lynn & Steve Briggs
This playful garden includes a terrace of eco-friendly, loose laid, native stone, indigenous plantings and permeable gravel pavings. A new cutting garden will soon provide a year-round source of flowers.
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4. Michael Dyer & Dale Gann
Glocca Morra Farm
Once home to the late artist, Arthur Stewart, this garden features hosta, camellias, hydrangeas, roses, coneflower, lilies, phlox, iris, ginger and many more varieties. Unique to this garden is a 4,000 square foot greenhouse which houses hundreds of rare orchids from all over the world.
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5. Fran Griffin
The
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6. June & Joe Mays
This lush hillside urban garden features a series of rooms – off a central axis – including a Charleston-style courtyard, a woodland garden, scented plants, grasses and water features. Many ideas can be attributed to June’s garden design studies in
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JVUF strives to be a model sustainable urban farm, teaching youth and the
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