Gamble Garden Spring Tour April 24, 2009

The Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden, a non-profit community horticultural foundation in Palo Alto, will hold its 24th Annual Spring Tour on Friday and Saturday, April 24 & 25, 2009.

This year's Spring Tour has five wonderful private gardens in the historic Professorville and Crescent Park areas. Professorville, a part of University South, is known for its history, inviting streets, and charming gardens. Our garden tour continues into Crescent Park, known for secluded lots, tree-lined streets, brilliant gardens, stream, and magnificent old trees.

During the tour, live music will be performed in several of the gardens to enhance your enjoyment of the surroundings. Harmony in design, as in music, encompasses elements of artistic creativity, composition, and often the staccato of surprise.

The designs of our five gardens on the tour are diverse. The garden designs feature California native and low water use plants, organic vegetables, foliages of many textures and colors, and artistic and custom made garden accessories. You will see a flowing sail-like canvas covering a patio, antique chimes dangling in trees, old stone walls, a rambling pool, creative ironwork, a mosaic wall, and a dancing fountain that will make you smile. And don't miss the children's playhouse that is carefully integrated into a flower garden.

The breadth of flowers in the gardens is amazing, there is a trellis seeping with roses that is breathtaking, hollyhocks and digitalis are in abundance. There are vibrant fresh cutting beds of flowers, Italian cypress, grape vines, iris, roses, hydrangea, succulents, ferns, grasses, water lilies, orange and lemon trees, and espaliered fruit trees.

Also enjoy a luncheon (advanced tickets), plant sale, boutique, vendors, and more!

Advanced Tickets: $35, Day of Tour: $40.

Official Website: http://www.gamblegarden.org