Wimberley Garden Club’s 25th Spring Garden Tour is Saturday, May 11 from 9 am - 2 pm
Rocks, deer, water restrictions, record heat and record cold…what’s a garden lover to do?
Put on your comfortable shoes and wide-brim hat and come to the Wimberley Garden Club’s 25th Spring Garden Tour on Saturday, May 11, from 10 am to 2 pm.
Three Wimberley couples who have a passion for gardening – and have weathered our Hill Country’s storms and challenges – invite you to their distinctively different properties to offer encouragement and inspiration for your own home landscape. Garden Club representatives (including Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists) as well as homeowners will be on hand to talk to you and answer questions..
To make your outing even more enjoyable, Wimberley Valley Art League members will be creating and selling their beautiful works, and local musicians will serenade you at each location.
To help jump start your own Little Piece of Heaven, you will have the opportunity to purchase, at low cost, hardy native, adapted and Texas SuperStar® plants, as well as locally handcrafted landscape décor, at the tour’s Garden Lovers Market.
Woodcreek
This quiet and enchanting 1.5-acre property with heritage oaks suffered greatly in the ice storm, but homeowners made clever use of downed limbs to line pleasant paths, used untold yards of leaves for mulch and are adapting to new light levels across the property. Hardy transplants from their previous home in Houston, blooming perennials and roses thrive in protected areas while native and adapted trees, ornamentals and groundcovers flourish everywhere else. Rocks for walkways and water management were mined on site. Musician Tom Dawson will perform. Annette Kennedy, Lisa Motley will have landscape quilts, cards, coasters, portraits and botanical art on display. Monica Rasco will display her book, Goodnight Wimberley.
Spoke Hollow
This Certified Wildlife Habitat, the owners’ home, decorative iron and wood fence panels, stone structures and garden art are pure DIY. Purchased in 1978, the 2-acre hilltop retreat has evolved in tune with the environment, and it is peaceful, natural and comfortable. Ideas for water features, whimsical surprises and easy-to-care-for gardens abound. You will also find the Garden Lovers Market here. Heads up: More of the rebar Christmas trees that greeted visitors to the 2023 Emily Ann Gardens Trail of Lights (which were designed and crafted here) will be on sale. Diane Lunow will bring gourd art, and Tom and Mary Wiley will display their jewelry and paintings. Bill Perkins will play music for a portion of the tour here.
Lone Man Creek
This extraordinary 30-acre property spans both sides of Lone Man Creek. Its hillside landscape is the result of a thorough study of topography, rainwater flow and native flora. The homeowners carefully laid paths to take advantage of the natural beauty of the terrain, from high on the cliff all the way down to creekside. Eight strategically located benches offer stunning vistas. Features include hundreds of native sotols, oaks, fruit trees, nut trees, herbs, wildflowers, grasses, a rose garden, and wet-weather waterfalls and ponds. Artists Lotus McElfish, Victor Summers, and Jeff Peterson will be on hand with a mix of botanical art, wooden sculptures, and plein air demonstration. Joe Dalton, musician, will perform during the tour.
Tour proceeds benefit the Wimberley Garden Club’s donations to local community beautification projects. For more information click here.
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