As part of my Mother's Day gift, I took a home garden tour in
Georgetown, a famous neighborhood in Washington, DC. Think history, rich people, and senator's homes. That's some of what you'll find there. The tour has a long tradition (86 years) with the local garden club and is their main fund raiser for beautification projects in the area.
The
tour definitely took us out of the suburbs and into the city. Streets were crowded, parking was difficult, and everything was more expensive. However once we were situated, we had a good time meandering among the houses. Everything was within a few blocks of each other and the weather was good. It started to rain about 2/3 of the way through, but that wasn't bad either because it was not cold.
Come take a virtual tour with me.
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| The sidewalks were brick in front of the houses and had small flower beds spaced along them. |
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| The front entrances to some of the houses were right on the sidewalk and some of them had a bed/small yard in front. |
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| To get to most of the gardens, we had to go down long alleys between buildings. |
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| Many of the gardens/yards were small and all of them were surrounded by a fence. |
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| Grass was a rare sight because of space limitations in most gardens. |
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| This was the only vegetable garden we saw although we did see herbs planted here and there other places. I think the lack of veggies was for two reasons--shady lots and small spaces. The gardens with this house were large and terraced across three levels. |
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| The houses often seemed to be in a jumble. Many of them were 100-200 years old and had been added onto and modified throughout the years. |
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| This was one of the larger and older houses we visited. All of the residences we saw were currently being lived in. |
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| This modern garden fit perfectly with the modern style architecture of the house it went with. The house was impressive but seemed out of place among the older brick homes. |
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| This dinosaur visited all of the gardens along with a little boy who was touring with his grandfather. The dinosaur often stopped to eat as he as doing in this picture. |
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| While I enjoyed the gardens, my favorite thing of the day was this garden club lady's outfit. I think that's because she was wearing pink cloth gloves. Oh, the fashions of days gone by. Sigh. |
What a wonderful tour to take on Mother's day!
ReplyDeleteI have an area that I like to take my walks, when I'm in that area running errands. I bring walking shoes, take a break from popping into businesses, and do about 40 minutes of walking and enjoying the view of wonderful front gardens. While the gardens don't look as elaborate as what you found in Georgetown, its always fun to see what someone else does with their property.
I think that's one reason is that I like touring others gardens--the ideas for design and plants that you find.
DeleteWhat a great way to spend the day! I like the idea of the tiny garden spaces, maybe because I'm overwhelmed right now by the amount of attention my yard needs!
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean. In general, I want a lot of space around me. But some of those small spaces were so comfortable, I was rethinking our 2 acre yard.
DeleteI love old brick and combining it with gardens is just gorgeous. What a fun day. And just think, if gloves were still in style, no one could guess our age by the appearance of our hands ...
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing about her gloves.
DeleteI forgot to mention that the dino eating the vegetation is the kind of thing my kids would have come up with ... so it made me smile.
DeleteThe little boy was really making the day his own with his dinosaur. Sometimes the dinosaur talked to us. Unfortunately, I never quite got what he said.
DeleteWhat a great day you had! And this lady looks like she just got off the queen of England's personal jet... I think, it's the gloves :)
ReplyDeleteYou can't see very well because I didn't want to show her face, but her hat was big and pink just like her shoes and gloves. She was a sight to see.
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