Mark your calendar for the second annual Lake County Trowel & Trellis Garden Club’s “Hidden Gardens of Lake County” garden tour Saturday, May 14. Last years’ tour was a notable success with garden enthusiasts attending from Lake, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sonoma, Humboldt and Mendocino counties. According to CLT&TGC President Ginny Cline, “Our 2015 tour had different gardens, from the Tallman Hotel’s professional landscape, to a non-irrigated indigenous property, to a hilltop Tuscan estate landscaped with many different types of palm trees. Many of the attendees from out of the area marveled at the creativity and diversity of the gardens and the beauty of Lake County.”
This years’ tour will feature a wide range of different gardens, including a gardener’s creek-side cottage garden; an olive orchard and historic olive mill tour, olive oil tasting and plant sale at Chacewater Winery; a fabulous hilltop Moroccan style property developed as a wild life sanctuary; and an extensive raised beds garden with professional gardeners on hand to answer questions about building, planting and irrigating.
Ticket are $25 each, and will be available beginning April 13 at Main Street Nursery and Flowers by Jackie in Lakeport; and Bird Brain Designs in Kelseyville. In addition to supporting the CLT&TGC and it’s ongoing education and beautification services to the community, fund raised by the Tour will go to Lake County middle and high school farm-to-school gardening programs and scholarships.
Last year the tour proceeds awarded over $5000 to student gardens and scholarships.
For information, please contact tour Chairperson Debra Watson O’Dell, 707-367-0815. To purchase tickets by mail, call Nora Gerrard 707 263-5803. Visit our website www.clttgc.org for information about our club. The CLT&TGC is a member of the Mendo-Lake District of the California Garden Club, Inc.-Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs, Inc.
