COLLIN COUNTY ROSE SOCIETY
2010 Garden Tour
2010 Garden Tour Tour details:
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The Hawthorne Garden This garden began in 1989 when Ernest and Judy Hawthorne (below and at right) decided to replace gardenias beside the patio with two 'Peace' and two 'Gold Glows' roses. After the first season, they were hooked on roses. Today, the garden is a smorgasbord of beds and a few containers, including a variety of climbers, hybrid teas, floribundas, polyanthas, and shrub roses. The bed along the west side of the house is planted mostly with hybrid tea roses to provide cut flowers for bouquets. Last fall, Judy and Ernest began to make slow but major changes in varieties, culture, and garden structure, including reworking some beds to EarthKind™ standards as they add EarthKind varieties. This garden is at 2837 Prairie Creek Drive, Plano, Texas. See more images on the Hawthorne Garden Page. At 1 p.m. on Saturday, a Consulting Rosarian will present a talk on how to grow EarthKind roses. If you want to learn about easy care roses, join us, and bring your questions!
Vicki's Garden (below) is a Tower of Rose Power!
This garden home is located on a one acre lot at 1490 Blue Forrest Dr., Prosper, Texas. The landscaping and gardens evolved from season to season beginning in 2002. Images of this garden are to the right and below. Rex and Jane Evans have personally designed, built and planted the landscaping and gardens with their hard work and sweat. A 900-foot-deep well provides the demand for water with a customized water management system consisting of soakers, low pressure micro spray, bubblers, garden risers and rotary spray heads. Each year the gardens and landscaping have grown in size and currently make up about 10,000-square-feet of planting area. The latest addition includes two raised stone vegetable gardens with automatic irrigation system. The focus is on seasonal color with a large variety of plants, including more than 70 roses consisting of climbers, hybrid teas, floribundas, shrub roses, David Austin English tea’s, miniatures, and EarthKind™ varieties. On this garden tour, you will see more than 100 varieties of perennials, herbs, ornamental grasses, vines and annuals, complemented with many roses, plush turf, native and planted trees, raised stone beds, boarders made of boulders, garden art, cabana, pool and a towering purple martin house with the aerobatic birds flying gracefully over the gardens. See this garden on the tour and on the Evans Garden Page.
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The tour begins Saturday at 10 a.m. and will end at 4 p.m. On Sunday, the tour will be from noon to 4 p.m. Pam and Claude Graves' garden (below) is one of the premier gardens in the area. Their lot at 2204 Canyon Creek Plaza, Richardson, Texas, contains more than 300 roses of every color and form available, from miniatures to large old garden climbers. Those gardeners who have seen this landscape in full bloom will never forget it. Visitors who are interested in show quality hybrid teas, antique roses, miniatures, and landscape roses will all find inspiration in this garden. Mr. Graves is the co-author of the EarthKind Specialist Training Handbook and a favorite lecturer on a variety of rose topics. The garden is at 2204 Canyon Creek Plaza, Richardson, Texas. See more images on the Graves Garden Page. At 2 p. m., a talk on rose care basics including making a bed and planting a rose will be held.
The Agee Garden Co-winner of the 2008 Dallas Rose Society Fergusson Award for the Best Garden, Vicki Agee's garden (above and at below left) combines the best of design and rose cultivation. The front and side yards offer an introduction to the garden, and passersby can peek into the back yard through a wrought iron windows in the fence. When you enter the yard, you find yourself surrounded by roses. In the center of the yard is a collection of roses selected especially for their scent. Nestled among the roses are day lilies, poppies, larkspur, and other companion plants which complement the roses. This garden is at 2310 Hanover Court, Rowlett, Texas. It is at the corner of University and Hanover. More images of the Agee Garden are the Agee Garden Page.
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