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May. 4th, 2008 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafish
This weekend was the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour; a fundraiser in memory of a local gardener/nursery owner. She started the tour herself as a way to raise money for a local women's shelter - after she passed away, others continued putting it on. It's all free; each home has a donation jar that they ask you donate to. And some of the gardens are just breathtaking. A woman in my garden club particpated in it last year, and said she spent 9 hours a day for two months in her yard getting ready for it! There were 48 homes on the tour, but we only visited six, which was plenty.
Seal Beach CA
Sharp VE-CG30
04 May 2008
(Angus likes the carnivorous plants)
Long Beach CA
Westminster CA - Not on the tour, but could have been; it nice to see something different that the English Cottage Garden everyone seems to want to emulate...
And in every neighborhhood, either across the street or a few doors down, there seems to also be one of these. Oh well, I suppose it looks better than my yard...
More tour photos here and at the Tour Website...
