Spring Garden Tour
Saturday, June 4: 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, June 5: 1 pm – 6 pm
We are certain you will be inspired by the five private gardens presented on our 24th Annual Spring Garden Tour. Each garden represents a work of art and love. We join our gardeners in welcoming you to celebrate the spring season with a leisurely stroll among perennials, herbs and native wildflowers. The gardens offer ideas on how to use sculpture and artifacts, water features and stonework.
This year we are proud to have 5 premier private gardens in the Greater Chattanooga area on our tour. Tour attendees will also get to view the St. Albans Community garden.
Again this year, we will be adding the Food Bank’s new garden facility, the Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching & Enabling Garden, to our tour. The garden, located behind the Food Bank, will be host to educational workshops on vegetable gardening, best gardening practices, conservation and cooking & preserving classes.
The tour also raises funds for our flagship community garden, named in honor of the late Bill Johnson, former Executive Director of the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. Founded in 1986 by the Food Bank, Metropolitan Council and the Chattanooga Housing Authority, the garden provides elderly residents of the downtown Gateway community the opportunity to grow their own fresh produce, herbs and flowers. The garden is an intergenerations initiative and community building opportunity.
Gardens on Tour
Jane & George Diamantis: 6508 White Oak Valley Circle, Ooltewah:
Welcome to Whiteoak, the Diamantis garden. Nestled at the base of Whiteoak Mountain, the garden was designed to recreate the beauty and charm of the English countryside found in the historical sheep-farming district known as Cotswolds. The cottage style garden is comprised of trees, shrubs, and perennials with a well house, fountain, folly and koi pond. Please give the active bee hive a wide birth. Enjoy your walk!
Jon Nessle: 9308 Rockshire Lane, Brainerd:
The Nessle garden is an example of a Tennessee Upland Hardwood Forest, sitting on a 5 acre wooded lot in a traditional suburban neighborhood. Take the footpaths defined throughout the woods, or relax and enjoy the beauty of the rolling wooded landscape from the back deck. This garden demonstrates a no chemical, low maintenance landscape, highlighting the beauty of our native plants.
Marge & Ron Pasch: 511 Parlem Drive, Red Bank:
The backyard of this home is landscaped into garden “rooms”. An enclosed English garden features roses and boxwoods, while a small stream splashes down the back hillside in a Japanese-influenced landscape. A small shade garden is nestled in the back corner of the lot, while numerous vines provide shelter for nesting birds.
Patsy Boles: 8973 Clift Street, Hixson:
Welcome to the Boles garden. Stack stone beds (built by Patsy) on the property enhance the cottage gardens & unify the various plantings throughout. Cool off in the shade garden or linger by the babbling brook in a nearby swing. Wander down the hill by the terraced vegetable beds and past the greenhouse with its collection of antique watering cans, to the pie shaped carpet and knockout rose gardens.
Kim Million: 12220 Macan Way, Soddy Daisy:
Want to attract hummingbirds to your garden? Come out and see what flowers, shrubs and ornamental trees attract and play host to these amazing creatures. A gently rolling, sun-loving garden wraps around the perimeter of the property where mass plantings of perennial beds mingle with annuals to provide the understory for flowering shrubs and trees.
St. Albans Community Garden: 7514 Hixson Pike, Hixson:
Opened in 2005, the St. Albans Community garden consists of 39 beds, is handicapped accessible, has restroom availability, provides garden tools for use at the garden, and is open to the community. A minimal fee is charged to cover water costs. The gardeners are dedicated to encouraging stewardship of the earth by growing vegetables organically.
Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching & Enabling Garden, 2009 Curtain Pole Road, Chattanooga
Tickets
Tickets are $15. Children under 12 are free. You can purchase tickets ahead of time by coming to the Food Bank or you can purchase tickets at any of the gardens when you begin your tour.
For more information, please contact Jane Mauldin at (423) 622-1800 or jmauldin@chattfoodbank.org.
Garden Tour Sponsors
Cornerstone Community Bank
Holcomb Garden Center
Master Gardeners of Hamilton County
Scenic Cities Beautiful
