Blackridge Garden Tour: June 29, 2011
Here's a link to some photos taken at the pretour for hosts and volunteers on Tuesday evening by our official club photographer and neighbor, professional David Kissell: http://bit.ly/jUBw5X. Here's another great photo album by tour guest Charles Richards, who says he and his wife were inpired by the tour: http://bit.ly/mDk205. Host Paul Agnew's and guest Laurie McWilliams's MANY shots are in our album here, along with a few shots from Sheila Mozer. If you have any pix to share, please let us know!
The 2011 Blackridge Garden Tour took place Wednesday, June 29, starting at 6:30 PM. Many Blackridge neighbors toured gardens on the northern end of the neighborhood, in the general area of Orlando Place and Hollywood Drive, plus, as proved to be so popular on our last tour in 2009, we had a bonus, off-site garden, on McCrady Road. Shuttles, driven by Joe Toth and Peter Del Presto, were available at the corner of Hollywood Drive and Williamsburg Place for those not driving to McCrady.
The lovely gardens of Kathy and Ralph DeFilippo, Charmagne Anderson, Patrick and Christine Zubrow, Amanda Veoni and Dan McNamara, Claudia and Paul Agnew, Katie Werner and Tim Gosetti, Anne Morton, Lesa Skotnicki and Rick Mast, and Barb and Jim Trusilo were featured on the tour. Thanks to all of you! The tour was wonderful, and we were especially thrilled with the perfect weather. We've posted a map here and the program here.
We offered four door prizes to those taking the tour, just to make things more fun--if you completed the tour (all nine gardens), you had a chance to win the raffle! Winners are Yvonne Mast of Washington, PA, mother of host Rick Mast of Orlando Place, who won a gorgeous hosta and a pot of hens and chicks, Pat Flynn, also of Orlando Place, who won a 'Lemon Cherry' tomato plant and a pot of jalapeno plants--one each of 'Grande' and 'Jalafuego', Mary-JoSanticky of Old Gate Road, who also won the ornamentals, and Susan Juffe of South Aiken Avenue, who also won the vegetables. Congrats!!
We are also offered tickets for sale on a bigger gardening prize of a wonderful planter filled with flowers, plus some special gardening goodies, including a solar lantern, a huge book on orchids, a birdhouse, long citronella candle stakes, Doug Oster's gardening journal, cute floral wine charms, and a sun hat. This prize went to Diana Colaizzi of Branning Drive in Churchill. Tickets sold for $2.00 apiece or 3 for $5.00, and many friends of the club purchased raffle tickets. Although we do not charge for the tour, many guests made generous donations to support the work of the garden club in maintaining the Blackridge signature corners. Thank you!
We welcome photos and memories of this and of past tours, and will happily share those things on the website, so please send them our way! We have photos from a few recent tours under the Photos tab at the top of the page, but we would adore seeing and sharing as many as you have.
The Blackridge Garden Tour is typically one of the most popular and enjoyable community activities we sponsor, and the 2011 tour was among the best! If you have any comments on the tour, or suggestions for future tours, please let us know. Anne Messner, a member of the BGC for many years, and a multiple time tour host, has this to add: Just wanted to say I think the garden tour was a roaring success. All the toil of the gardeners definitely was evident as the gardens are gorgeous and showed to perfection, positively glowing as the light went down; all the hard work of the people like Tara, Nancy, Judy and Amy was clearly evident in the lovely booklets, the organization of the evening, which began long long ago, and even the procuring of the gardens for the tour. This one evening is definitely a HUGE amount of work, but so worth it. I loved seeing neighbors walking with neighbors to neighbors' gardens. Truly shows why Blackridge is THE place to live!
Huge thanks to everyone for making the evening possible.
The 2011 Blackridge Garden Tour took place Wednesday, June 29, starting at 6:30 PM. Many Blackridge neighbors toured gardens on the northern end of the neighborhood, in the general area of Orlando Place and Hollywood Drive, plus, as proved to be so popular on our last tour in 2009, we had a bonus, off-site garden, on McCrady Road. Shuttles, driven by Joe Toth and Peter Del Presto, were available at the corner of Hollywood Drive and Williamsburg Place for those not driving to McCrady.
The lovely gardens of Kathy and Ralph DeFilippo, Charmagne Anderson, Patrick and Christine Zubrow, Amanda Veoni and Dan McNamara, Claudia and Paul Agnew, Katie Werner and Tim Gosetti, Anne Morton, Lesa Skotnicki and Rick Mast, and Barb and Jim Trusilo were featured on the tour. Thanks to all of you! The tour was wonderful, and we were especially thrilled with the perfect weather. We've posted a map here and the program here.
We offered four door prizes to those taking the tour, just to make things more fun--if you completed the tour (all nine gardens), you had a chance to win the raffle! Winners are Yvonne Mast of Washington, PA, mother of host Rick Mast of Orlando Place, who won a gorgeous hosta and a pot of hens and chicks, Pat Flynn, also of Orlando Place, who won a 'Lemon Cherry' tomato plant and a pot of jalapeno plants--one each of 'Grande' and 'Jalafuego', Mary-JoSanticky of Old Gate Road, who also won the ornamentals, and Susan Juffe of South Aiken Avenue, who also won the vegetables. Congrats!!
We are also offered tickets for sale on a bigger gardening prize of a wonderful planter filled with flowers, plus some special gardening goodies, including a solar lantern, a huge book on orchids, a birdhouse, long citronella candle stakes, Doug Oster's gardening journal, cute floral wine charms, and a sun hat. This prize went to Diana Colaizzi of Branning Drive in Churchill. Tickets sold for $2.00 apiece or 3 for $5.00, and many friends of the club purchased raffle tickets. Although we do not charge for the tour, many guests made generous donations to support the work of the garden club in maintaining the Blackridge signature corners. Thank you!
We welcome photos and memories of this and of past tours, and will happily share those things on the website, so please send them our way! We have photos from a few recent tours under the Photos tab at the top of the page, but we would adore seeing and sharing as many as you have.
The Blackridge Garden Tour is typically one of the most popular and enjoyable community activities we sponsor, and the 2011 tour was among the best! If you have any comments on the tour, or suggestions for future tours, please let us know. Anne Messner, a member of the BGC for many years, and a multiple time tour host, has this to add: Just wanted to say I think the garden tour was a roaring success. All the toil of the gardeners definitely was evident as the gardens are gorgeous and showed to perfection, positively glowing as the light went down; all the hard work of the people like Tara, Nancy, Judy and Amy was clearly evident in the lovely booklets, the organization of the evening, which began long long ago, and even the procuring of the gardens for the tour. This one evening is definitely a HUGE amount of work, but so worth it. I loved seeing neighbors walking with neighbors to neighbors' gardens. Truly shows why Blackridge is THE place to live!
Huge thanks to everyone for making the evening possible.
Planter created by member Amy Bluedorn for our raffle.
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Diana Colaizzi, winner of our basket raffle
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