WESTMINSTER — The Westminster Cares 12th annual Garden Tour will feature the gardens of Mary and Gordon Hayward, nationally known garden designers, writers, and lecturers.
Three other beautiful Westminster gardens are also on the tour, which is the weekend of June 29-30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets allow admission to all gardens all weekend.
Garden Tour highlights include:
• The Harward Gardens, featuring a post-and-beam gazebo, four-quadrant herb garden, a sheep topiary, a fruit tree orchard, and Dan Snow-built stone walls.
• The Petry Gardens, including “Epiphany Farms,” featuring 20-year-old hilltop gardens, chickens and llamas, an ancient apple orchard, and an inviting seven-circle mowed labyrinth; and “Kismet,” featuring the work of professional landscape designer Cyndy Fine, whose gardens surround the 1812 village farmhouse. View the “nest' sculpture, the sunken stone terrace, and the newly planted evergreen berm.
• The Walsh Gardens, “The Gardens of Benign Neglect,” located in Westminster West. These gardens and meadows cover 20 acres with incredible views. The gardens are tended by London Lippke.
Lunch will be available for purchase at the Haywards' garden, where local musicians will perform throughout the weekend. There will also be raffle tickets for sale, and perennials grown and sold by Morning Star Perennials, a local organic nursery.
Proceeds support the services and programs of Westminster Cares, a volunteer organization dedicated to helping seniors and disabled adults live in the community with independence and dignity.