25th Annual Piedmont Gardeners Tour
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 21, 2018, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rain or Shine
Admissions: One ticket admits the holder to all 5 gardens
Tickets: $15 if purchased in advance from local businesses / $20 at the gardens on Tour Day
Student Tickets: $10 (with ID)
Click Here for list of local businesses
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Garden 1 Coach Vince Dooley is as passionate about gardening as he is about football; this showcase garden is full of outstanding Southern plants, rare specimens and extensive botanical collections. |
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Garden 2 Edward (Tee) & Kim Noland This elegant garden with its sweeping lawns and spacious terraces is surrounded by a variety of outdoor entertaining spaces, a pool area, grand shade trees, lush borders and a woodland retreat on the banks of Bobbin Mill Creek. |
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Garden 3 Barb and Rod Wright The peaceful atmosphere of this garden will make you want to sit and enjoy its hospitable surroundings. Custom wrought iron fencing and gates are features not to be missed while strolling through the patios, pergola and plantings of this tranquil home and guesthouse. |
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Garden 4 Mary and Charlie Weiland This enchanting woodland setting offers a successful recipe for integrating sloping terrain, a creek, and an abundance of mature trees into an inspired garden. Winding paths, a creek-side observation deck, re-purposed antiques and naturalized plantings create the picture of serenity.
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Garden 5 Ram and Tom Giberson There are surprises galore in this extensive and superlative garden. With seven water features, a Thai-inspired spirit house, a vast collection of Japanese maples and stands of rarely seen bamboos - this one is in a class of its own. |
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