23rd Annual Piedmont Gardeners Tour

Welcome

Join us for The Piedmont Gardeners Annual Garden Tour and take the opportunity to visit five inspiring gardens in the Athens, Georgia area. Bring a friend, grab your walking shoes and immerse yourselves in the self-guided tour filled with garden creativity and ideas. We look forward to seeing you!

When: Saturday, April 16, 2016, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rain or Shine
Admissions: One ticket admits the holder to all 5 gardens
Tickets: $15 if purchased from local businesses / $20 at the gardens on Tour Day
Student Tickets: $10 (with ID)

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	Garden 1 UGA President's Garden 570 Prince Avenue, Athens Constructed in 1856, this prominent Greek revival home offers a rare opportunity for the public to explore its formal parterre boxwood gardens, rose gardens and walkways meandering through azalea and camellia beds, culminating with an English inspired folly.
	Garden 2 Dera Weaver 53 Prince Place, Athens This charming cottage garden spills over with lavender, climbing roses, evergreen clematis and layers of shrubs and perennials cleverly designed to create seclusion and joyful whimsy within a petite envelop full of surprises.
	Garden 3 Susan Hable and Peter Smith 640 Cobb Street, Athens Home to Susan Hable, a well-known graphic designer, her creative instincts are on full display with imaginative use of color and inspired plant combinations woven through lawns and borders; integrating house, studio and guest cottage into a harmonious whole.
	Garden 4 Wayne Amos and Charles Hunnicutt 930 Hill Street, Athens The Craftsman house is home to a gifted plantsman and showcases a superb shade garden using massed plantings under the mature hardwood canopy, accented with unusual specimens of small trees and conifers, and plant combinations that elegantly blend with the original rock walls and stone features of the property.
	Garden 5 Janet and Alex Patterson 258 Springdale Street, Athens Southern heritage plants such as magnolia, pecan, boxwoods, azaleas and iris grace the garden of this 1880 Victorian house, easily comingling with newcomer plantings such as Japanese maples, a Forest Pansy redbud, stands of bamboo and contemporary sculpture.