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Birmingham Botanical Gardens
2612 Lane Park Road
Birmingham, AL 35223
Glorious Gardens Tour set for May 3 - 4, 2008
Starting: 05/03/2008 10:00 AM“Glorious Gardens”
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 visiting www.bbgardens.org or calling 205.414.3965.
Featured Gardens:
Katherine & Gary 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.
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Ann & Lucian Bloodworth
The Bloodworth garden features a formal lawn surrounded by a gravel path with a unique wall fountain as a focal point. Other highlights include a rose adorned arbor, beech trees and camellias.
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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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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 thousands of rare orchids from all over the world.
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COMING SOON
Fran Griffin
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June & Joe Mays
This lush hillside garden features a series of rooms – off a central axis – including a Charleston-style courtyard, a woodland garden, scented plants, grasses and water features.
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Edwin Marty
JVUF strives to be a model sustainable urban farm, teaching youth and the
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Louise & John Wrinkle
This lush two acres of woodland are accessible by a network of paths and includes a collection of holly, azalea, native plants. This garden boasts an incredible Belgian fence made of native crabapple.
