Historic Garden Week in Virginia

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:08 | Virginia Johnson

History and gardening fans get together this week throughout the Commonwealth to tour gardens of houses great and small from the Tidewater area to the Highlands. The Rappahannock Valley portion of the tour will be held Tuesday, April 20, in Stafford and King George counties.

Tours will be offered in different venues throughout the state through Saturday, April 24. Check out the Garden Club of Virginia's Web site for information on all the tours and check out books from the library featuring homes and gardens in the state.

The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg by M. Kent Brinkley and Gordon W. Chappell

Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservation Work of the Garden Club of Virginia, 1975-2007 by Margaret Page Bemiss

Jefferson's Garden by Peter Loewer

The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson by Peter Martin

Virginia's Historic Homes & Gardens by Pat and Chuck Blackley

Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man by Mac Griswold

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