“Glorious Gardens” Features Eight Premiere Local Gardens

          

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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 Birmingham gardens to the public for only two days.  Collectively, the gardens will form the Glorious Gardens Tour - Saturday, May 3rd from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 4th from Noon-5:00 p.m.

 

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 Glorious Gardens Tour. Tickets may be purchased at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Leaf & Petal at The Gardens Gift Shop or at many of the local garden and accessory shops including: Colliers Nursery, Leaf and Petal, Little Hardware, Oak Street Garden Shop, Plant Odyssey, Smith & Hawken and Sweet Peas.  

 

Admission tickets may also be purchased by calling 205.414.3965.

      

Featured Gardens:

        

1.  Katherine & Garry Ard

3164 Overhill Road

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

2724 Canterbury Road

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

2906 Surrey Road

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

2969 Pump House Road

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

3921 Royal Oak Drive

The Griffin garden is a summer Southern garden with a variety of plants, color, heights and textures.  Perennials include coneflower, black-eyed susan, bee balm, salvia and daylilies.  It has a “planned, unplanned feeling.”  Fran is the “constant gardener” of her garden – designing, planting and maintaining. 

              

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6.  June & Joe Mays

3514 Country Club Road

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 England and her many gardening friends.  The garden also features three water features, two seating arbors, several art pieces and a sedum pyramid.

   

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7.  Edwin Marty

Jones Valley Urban Farm

7th Avenue North & 25th Street

JVUF strives to be a model sustainable urban farm, teaching youth and the Birmingham community about sustainable agriculture and nutrition through outdoor experiential education.  The farm grows a wide variety of produce, herbs and cut flowers. 

 

               

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8.  Louise & John Wrinkle

2 Beechwood Road

This lush two acres of woodland are accessible by a network of paths and includes a collection of holly, azalea, native plants.  Louise’s horticultural interests began with natives, but realization of oriental counterparts has enriched the plantings.  This garden boasts an incredible Belgian fence made of native crabapple, a cutting garden and a natural brook which flows year round.  New features include a pond and a pit greenhouse.

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