River Park Garden Club hosts annual tour

Gardens are as individual as the gardeners who make them. See for yourself in a neighborhood packed with creative people.

On Saturday, April 20, the River Park Garden Club hosts its fourth annual neighborhood tour featuring “Special Garden Spaces.” These landscapes are very personal and inviting.

One garden features friendly koi in a pond among garden sculptures, fruit trees, succulents and perennials in bloom. Another includes an “artist’s retreat” – a personalized studio among the flowers and Japanese maples.

“The tour will also feature a large garden made for entertaining as well as self-reflection. It has its own meditation platform,” say the organizers. “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.

“The sixth garden combines exotic herbs, greens, vegetables, fruit trees and a beautiful rose garden,” they add. “Everything in this garden is grown from seeds or cuttings! Talk about having a green thumb!”

Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are only $5 and available on tour day, beginning at 9:45 a.m., at the ticket table in front of Caleb-Greenwood School, 5457 Carlson Drive (at Camellia Avenue), Sacramento. Tickets also may be reserved in advance by calling 916-454-5637.

Children age 14 and younger admitted free with an adult. No baby strollers allowed in the gardens.

In addition, a master gardener will be on hand to answer visitors’ gardening questions from 11 a.m. to noon. An artists’ boutique will feature garden-oriented art and crafts.