Enjoy unique private Sacramento gardens plus plant and garden art sales
One of seven gardens on Saturday's tour, this backyard went from huge swimming pool to koi pond, Japanese maples and edibles. Photos courtesy River Park Garden Club
Enjoy a beautiful spring Saturday while wandering in someone else’s backyard during an enchanting local garden tour.
On Saturday, April 22, the River Park Garden Club hosts its third “Seven Special Garden Spaces” tour. Tickets are just $5 for this neighborhood tour featuring private gardens in the River Park neighborhood near Sacramento State. Gardens will be open from 10 a.m to 2 p.m.
On tour day, get your tickets at the corner of Carlson Drive and Camellia Avenue. (Both Carlson and Camellia intersect H Street; go north on either one.) Tickets may also be reserved by calling 916-451-4658.
All seven gardens are unique, says club President Patricia Beach Smith. “There is a friendly dragon in the young-at-heart fantasy garden on the tour, and an immaculately kept garden, 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.
“Shhhh. One of the gardens is a quiet nesting place for 12 soon-to-be ducklings and their parents,” Smith adds. “Another is a large family garden – with a swimming pool, entertaining areas plus raised vegetable beds and fruit trees.”
At one stop, the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club will offer plants for sale. In another garden, artists will exhibit and sell their garden-centric paintings, jewelry, clothing and garden ornaments.
Club members will be hosts in each garden to answer questions and offer advice.
The club is also seeking candidates for next year’s tour. Prospective gardens will be toured this month. “We need to see them in the spring,” Smith says.
For more details: https://riverparkgardenclub.yolasite.com/.
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