Enthusiastic crowd attends Petals & Pathways Garden Tour
LUSH LANDSCAPING on Leah and Sam Fischer’s double-lot Colonial Revival home.
It was a chilly, drizzly day, but that didn’t stop over 200 garden enthusiasts from visiting the five spectacular home gardens on the 2025 Petals & Pathways Garden Tour May 3, presented by the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society (WSHPHS) and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.
DROUGHT-TOLERANT LANDSCAPING greets visitors to Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Leigh Dana Jackson’s late Mission Style home.
The homeowners whose gardens were on tour were Sarah Shun-lien and Leigh Dana Jackson, Alysoun and Al Higgins, Heather and John Fogarty, Leah and Sam Fischer and Jay Griffith, who generously invited the tour participants to explore the interior of his golf course-adjacent
estate.
CHARMING PLANT BEDS grace the backyard of Alysoun and Al Higgins’ Craftsman home.
HEATHER AND JOHN FOGARTY replaced their driveway with a welcoming garden path.
Joseph Guidera, president of WSHPHS, notes that many factors contributed to the Garden Tour’s success: devoted Society volunteers, gracious residents who open up their gardens “and our generous friends and neighbors who show up every year to buy tickets and support our organization. It really is what the Windsor Square-Hancock Park community is all about.”
FRONT WALKWAY to landscaper Jay Griffith’s golf course estate.
Photos by Alex Elliot for WSHPHS
LANDSCAPER Jay Griffith (second from right) with WSHPHS members (left to right) Jane Gilman, Richard Battaglia and WSHPHS President Joseph Guidera.
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