Garden tours begin Sunday.Byline: The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - "Old- Fashioned Gardens," the first local garden tour of the season, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Eight Springfield area homes and FOOD for Lane County's Springfield Youth Farm will be featured in the eighth annual Springfield Museum Garden Tour. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 on Sunday. Children under 12 are free. Tickets are available at Antique Peddlers, Bloomer's Nursery, Book Mark, Gray's Garden Centers, Jerry's Home Improvement Center, Little Red Farm Nursery, Ruthie B's Antiques, Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the Springfield Museum. Tickets also will be sold at each garden on Sunday. Six of the gardens are located in the city of Springfield and three are in the countryside. The tour is self-guided and will take place rain or shine. The city gardens are those of: Linda Goodness, 779 V St., where Goodness built the fences and arbors and created "rooms" in spaces along the house that would be grass or gravel in most suburban yards. Ruth and Jim Ballenger, 1084 S. 39th St., demonstrating how a problem lot with little privacy to begin with can become a special, private garden. Nancy and Gary Karp, 1689 Lawnridge Ave., featuring use of recycled materials and 50 varieties of heirloom roses, including Harrison's yellow, a rose brought to Oregon by many pioneer women. Mary Broadhurst, 607 D St., which Broadhurst created in just one year and which complements her 1912 bungalow. Teresa Hatter, 2415 19th St., accented with a flower-filled Model T, vintage garden artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. and a spring harrow covered with morning glory morning glory, common name for members of the Convolvulaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and small trees (many of them climbing forms) inhabiting warm regions, especially the tropics of America and Asia. The family is characterized by milky sap. . FOOD for Lane County's Springfield Youth Farm at the end of Flamingo Street off Game Farm Road. The three-acre organic vegetable farm provides work for youth and food for the community. The three rural gardens, all located east of Springfield, are those of: Bob and Margaret Bob and Margaret was a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States. It was based on the Academy Award winning animated short Bob's Birthday, featuring the same main characters. Kintigh, 38865 E. Cedar Flat Road, a rhododendron rhododendron (rō'dədĕn`drən) [Gr.,=rose tree], any plant of the genus Rhododendron, shrubs of the family Ericaceae (heath family) found chiefly in mountainous areas of the arctic and north temperate regions and also of the garden with a half mile of paths, seven bridges and more than 700 species of rhododendrons. Pamela Billick, 38830 Flowerdale Drive, a three-acre garden with a pond, shade plantings, rock work and giant garden sculptures in the form of a Bucyrus Erie shovel and a 1947 restored fire truck. Lindsay Reeves, 38784 Camp Creek There are over one thousand places in the United States named Camp Creek, including several hundred streams: Streams Georgia
The proceeds from this garden tour will benefit the Springfield Museum's family programs, exhibits and collection care. Three other garden tours are scheduled, two in June and one in July. The Eugene Symphony The Eugene Symphony is an American orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. Its home venue is the Silva Concert Hall at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Approximately 22,000 people attend Eugene Symphony's classical and pops concert performances each year. Guild's "Music in the Garden" will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 9, a Sunday. It will feature five Eugene gardens and one Springfield garden. Live music is planned at three of the venues. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 on the day of the event. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Down to Earth, Decker Nurseries, Gray's Garden Center, Little Red Farm Nursery, Robert's Landscape and Nursery, Shamrock Flowers & Gifts, Beaudet Jewelry Design Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion-dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age. , Passion Flower passion flower, n Latin name: Passiflora incarnata; parts used: flowers, fruit; uses: sedative, sleep disorders, neuralgia, tachycardia, opiate withdrawal; precautions: pregnancy, lactation, children, sedative medications, MAOIs. Design and the Urban Garden, all in Eugene; Ruthie B's Antiques, Cafe 131 and Gray's Garden Center, all in Springfield; Johnson Brothers Johnson Brothers, originally a British tableware manufacturer and exporter, was noted for its early introduction of "semi-porcelain" tableware. Some of its designs, "Dawn", "Old Britain Castles" and "Historic America", achieved widespread popularity and are still collected today. Greenhouse, Coburg; and Garland Nursery, Corvallis. "KLCC KLCC Kuala Lumpur City Centre (Malaysia) in Bloom: A Shared Passion," will operate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 23, also a Sunday. Eight Eugene gardens will be featured. Five of the gardens are within walking distance of each other in the South Hills, and three are in the Friendly Street area. Tickets are $10 in advance or $13 on the day of the tour. You can purchase tickets online at www.klcc.org or at any of these locations: Dotson's Coburg Antiques, Down to Earth (two locations), Eugene True Value Hardware, Euphoria Chocolate Co. (three locations), EWEB EWEB Eugene Water and Electric Board (Oregon) Credit Union, Footwise - The Birkenstock Store, Gray's Garden Centers (two locations), Heidi's Cards & Flowers, Home Grown Gardens in Corvallis, Jerry's Home Improvement Center, Lane Forest Products (two locations), Lane Community College Downtown Center, Little Red Farm Nursery, New Twist, Pacific Stonescape, Sundance Natural Foods and Wild Oats Marketplace (two locations). The `McKenzie River For rivers name "Mackenzie", see . The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River, 86 miles (138 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range east of Eugene into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. Home and Garden Tour' will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 20, a Saturday, as a benefit for the McKenzie River Clinic. The self-guided tour A self-guided tour is where one navigates a route themselves as opposed to an escorted tours where a tour guide person directs the route, times, information, and places toured. Many self-guided tours come with suggestions, maps, instructions, directions, and items to see or do. will feature eight home-and-garden locations and a barbecue lunch. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 on the day of the tour. Tickets will be sold at Down to Earth, Bookmine in Cottage Grove, Vida Market, River Run Gallery in Leaburg, Blue River Market, Harbicks Country Store near Blue River and other locations. For more information, check the Web at mckenziehomeandgardentour.com. |
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