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“GARDEN TOUR FOR CONNOISSEURS” SATURDAY, May 31 2008 9:00 A.M. TO 4:00 P.M. (come rain or shine) |
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CONTACTS: TOUR CO-CHAIRPERSONS: Beth Wagner 1-405-721-7423
Sharon Miller 1-405-722-0833
GENERAL INFORMATION: Beth Wagner 1-405-721-7423
OHS WEB SITE: www.okhort.org
For additional information, maps and garden descriptions
The time has once again come for Central Oklahoma’s most anticipated garden tour. This year marks the NINTH ANNUAL “Garden Tour for Connoisseurs”. The tour, which features 7 of the most beautiful private gardens in the Oklahoma City area is a major fund raiser for the Oklahoma Horticultural Society. It is eagerly anticipated by gardeners and horticulturalists throughout our area. This event, sponsored by Ken Hutmacher of Churchill Brown Associates features private gardens not generally open to the public.
The Society’s “Garden Tour for Connoisseurs” has become the premier garden tour for Central Oklahoma. As always, we are very excited to present gardens which are rarely if ever seen by the general public. These gardens represent a wide palate of horticultural interests. Some are designed by landscape professionals while others are the work of the dedicated, self-taught horticultural hobbyist. Each garden is unique, beautiful, and offers the viewer ideas for their own home landscape. The tour will demonstrate how improving the home landscape will enhance the value of the home as well as increase personal enjoyment of the property. Oklahoma Horticultural Society members, Master Gardeners, and other knowledgeable individuals will be present at each garden to help answer the public’s questions during the tour. It is our hope that tour participants will walk away with ideas for beautification of their own home landscape as well as our public landscapes.
The tour represents the major fund raiser for the non-profit Oklahoma Horticultural Society. Funds derived from this event are used to underwrite the educational goals of the Society. Founded as a non-profit organization in 1970, the Society promotes gardening and stimulates interest in horticulture throughout the State of Oklahoma. We are dedicated to educating both ourselves and the general public about plant culture and the best plants for our climate. The Society also sponsors educational lectureships and provides money for scholarships for horticultural students as well as educational events such as Junior Master Gardener’s Camp, Myriad Botanical Gardens Garden School, and the Oklahoma Gardening TV show.
Tickets are $12 in advance at listed nurseries; $15 at garden entrances on the day of the tour. Children 6 and under are free. The cost to view a single garden is $5.00. Tickets will go on sale the later part of May at the following outlets:
- Farmers Grain Company of Edmond
102 W. 1 st Street
Edmond, OK
(405)341-3310
- Horn Seed Company
1409 N.W. Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK
(405)842-6607
- Precure Nursery and Garden Center – 2 locations
8125 W. Reno
Oklahoma City, OK
(405)789-4930 or 789-2540
4535 N.W. 63 rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK
(405)721-5637
- TLC Florist and Greenhouse – 2 locations
105 West Memorial Road
Oklahoma City, OK
(405)751-0630
8208 N.W. Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK
(405)720-0091
- The Greenhouse
1708 24 AV SW
Norman, OK
(405) 321-3744
* The Wilshire Garden Market
2821 W. Wilshire Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK
(405) 879-1121
TOUR SPONSOR: Ken Hutmacher of Churchill Brown Associates
(405) 755-9052
GARDEN LOCATIONS
1. 2204 N.W. 56 th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Don & Karen Resler
2. 2213 Dawn Marie
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Sue Ann Johnson
3. 5832 N. Barnes
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Don & Courtney Cunningham
4. 1937 N.W. 56 th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Bob Corcorran
5. 2816 Cambridge Court
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Bill Howell & Michael Newman
6. 8100 Lakehurst Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
Ernie & Merilyn Morris
7. 2834 Guilford Lane
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
Kamala Gamble & Lance Cornman
Glorious Optical Extravaganza
Mark your calendar for the event of the season, the Daylily Exhibition and Sale on, Saturday, June 14, 2008 at the Tulsa Garden Center Auditorium, 2435 South Peoria, featuring some of the world’s most beautiful specimens and companion plants. The doors open at 8 am and the sale is on with daylilies and companion plants from the gardens of Tulsa Garden Center affiliates, local growers and businesses. Don’t be late…. the best plants are sold first but there will plenty to go around. The sale will last until 4 pm or until all plants are sold.
On exhibition will be a variety of daylilies in a host of colors, shapes and sizes creating a GloriousOptical Extravaganza. These are some of the world’s best and most recent varieties featuring plants by nationally known hybridizers Pat Stamile, Frank Smith, Jeff Salter, Ted Petit and Tim Bell. Local daylily growers Kathy Wood of Kathy’s Daylilies and Donna Brooks of Brooks Daylily Garden will have plants for sale. You can enjoy their beauty and take home daylilies and companion plants of your choice.
A daylily chosen by the show judge will be presented the Dale Sattterwhite Memorial Award for the Best In Show.
If you or your group would like a booth address all inquires to Randall Barron, president of Tulsa Area Daylily Society, 918-369-1581 or randallbarron@cox.net. The booth rental is a nominal fee, $100.