Colorful gardens come to bloom on Garden Tour May 2
April showers bring May flowers, as the saying goes, and even though California receives little rainfall in spring, Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society’s highly anticipated annual garden tour promises a riot of colorful blooms, leafy shrubs, stately trees, and cozy outdoor living spaces befitting our beautiful historic neighborhood. For this year’s self-guided tour, Gardens in Bloom: A Floral Legacy, guests are welcome to roam and wander through four exceptional gardens.
LINDSAY STURMAN and Ben Paul in the lovely front garden of their Georgian home, which will be featured on the Garden Tour.
GARDEN TOUR COMMITTEE: (from left) WSHPHS President Richard Battaglia, June Bilgore, Heather John Fogarty, and Joseph Guidera (not pictured, Jane Gilman).
A charming Georgian home on Plymouth Boulevard is the setting for one of the featured gardens. Homeowners Lindsay Sturman and Ben Paul modeled their front and backyard plantings on the wild English country gardens Sturman’s mother, a landscape designer, favored. “It should feel like you’re in nature, with natural materials, stone, and brick, rather than it being too planned,” Sturman explained. In their backyard, lush plantings create intimate spaces for lounging, conversing by a fire pit, hosting dinners al fresco, and swimming.
Other garden tour highlights include a stately home on Lorraine Boulevard along with sculpted hedges and a drought-tolerant succulent garden at a graceful Tudor home on June Street that backs onto the newly refurbished Wilshire Country Club golf course.
Whether in possession of a magnificent garden or just covetous of one, this stunning selection of varied home gardens is sure to inspire!
SCULPTED HEDGES frame stately home on Lorraine Boulevard.
WILD ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN on Plymouth Boulevard.
Gardens in Bloom: A Floral Legacy benefits WSHPHS planting and improvement projects. The self-guided tour will be held Sat., May 2, from noon to 4 p.m. Tickets are $55 for WSHPHS members and $100 for non-members, and include lunch, dessert, and prosecco. Raffle tickets will also be available for purchase. Check in at 355 S. Windsor Blvd. For more information and to reserve tickets, go to wshphs.com.
GRACEFUL TUDOR HOME backs onto the newly refurbished Wilshire Country Club.
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