Wednesday, April 11, 2007

GARDEN WEEK IN VIRGINIA

After too much cold weather, spring is finally here! Find the sure cure for cabin fever by joining us for Historic Garden Week in Virginia, April 21 - 28.

Visit Charlottesville, stay with us at Sugar Hollow and drink in the springtime beauty of Central Virginia. The Charlottesville area gardens that will be open include:

*Morven open on Saturday, April 2, is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been open for Garden Week since 1933.

*The Country Home and Gardens and Friendly Gardens will be seen in the Scottsville/Esmont Area on Sunday and Monday, April 22 and 23.

*The University of Virginia Gardens, including the Pavillion homes and gardens and Carr's Hill, the private home of the University President and Mrs. John T. Casteen, will be open on Tuesday, April 24.

As the nation's oldest and largest statewide tour, Garden Week, throughout the state, will present four centuries of Virginia's rich heritage with more than 30 house and garden tours across the Commonwealth. Properties on the tour range from farmhouses to city houses; historic manors to new-millennium villas; formal to informal - from the Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

You may find schedule and ticket information at www.VAGardenweek.org or at the Charlottesville Garden Club site at www.gardeninginvirginia.org.