Georgetown Garden Tour Date Set

The Georgetown Garden Tour will be held on May 8th this year. This event gives you the chance to finally get behind all those secret garden walls you always crane your neck over (although GM should make sure you understand this event doesn’t give you carte blanche to just stroll into anyone’s backyard, no matter how awesome that would be).

Tickets are $30 if bought before May 2nd and $35 after. There will be seven homes’ gardens spread out across Georgetown open this year. The website offers descriptions of the gardens, but doesn’t actually identify which homes they are. See if you can figure them out:

This fine old house opens out to a brick patio with an aerial hedge, a big sculptural holly, espaliered camellias and roses, hornbeams, pots.

A stepping stone path winds past a multi-trunked crape-myrtle and Roman statuary to a bubbling fountain and on to viburnums, clump bamboo, a kousa dogwood. By Oehme & Van Sweden Associates.

A show stopper. Not to be missed, owner-designed, reflecting the influence of Belgian designer Francois Goffinet, with a British conservatory and a geothermal swimming pool!

The enchanting courtyard entrance– with climbing roses– sets the stage for the treasures within and leads on to the romantic old fashioned and extensive gardens and grounds.

Three levels, each with a distinctive personality of its own. Weather permitting, a banquet table will be set on the middle level. A small jewel box of a garden with charming details throughout: a water feature, large pots dripping with herbs and a most inviting seating area. By Green Gardens

Sheltered from the street is a completely private space on two levels: a boxwood circle with a fountain, rustic steps lead up to a pool with stylish plantings. By Gregor Gardens

This inviting garden is recently redone and full of unusual plants which surround a pool, the attractive three level house used to be a carriage house. By Rogers & Co.