Part of “Fancy Nancy’s Garden,” garden No. 8 off Bainbridge Court, which was featured on the inaugural Lilburn Woman’s Club’s “Behind the Garden Gate” garden tour Saturday. (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
Yvonne Matheny, right, and her daughter, 10-year-old Elyse, check out a mini greenhouse at garden No. 6 off Charlemagne Way on Saturday. This garden was dubbed the “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.” (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
Members of the Lilburn Woman’s Club pose for a photo in front of the art tent where members had created art for sale. (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
A peek inside a mini greenhouse at garden No. 6 off Charlemagne Way. This garden was dubbed the “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.” (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
A section of “Fancy Nancy’s Garden” off Bainbridge Court on Saturday. (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
Beautiful yellow flowers grow in garden No. 5, dubbed the “Romantic Retreat.” (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
A whimsical display in garden No. 8, “Fancy Nancy’s Garden.” (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
Succulents grow in a hollowed out tree log in another display inside Fancy Nancy’s Garden off Bainbridge Court. (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
Andy Triemer, part of the Lilburn Arts Alliance, paints a scene from garden No. 5, the “Romantic Retreat” off Dunriver Drive on Saturday during the inaugural Lilburn Woman’s Club’s garden tour. (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
A vegetable garden planted by Gloria Sill and her grandson Shawn Marshman in the garden dubbed the “Romantic Retreat.” (Staff Photo: Deanna Allen)
LILBURN — It was a first for Lilburn on Saturday as the Lilburn Woman’s Club held its inaugural garden tour, “Behind the Garden Gate.”
The tour featured eight destinations, including seven private gardens and the Lilburn Community Garden.
“We’re declaring it a success,” event co-chair Jane Heyer said after the tour ended. “I think we had a good crowd.”
Elyse Matheny, 10, said her favorite garden was No. 4, dubbed the “Gracious Southern Estate,” on Tom Smith Road. The aspiring gardener helps her mother, Stone Mountain resident Yvonne Matheny, plant flowers.
“I just love gardening and love seeing how people set everything up and hoping to get some good ideas,” Yvonne Matheny said as she perused garden No. 6, the “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.” She said she had gotten “so many” ideas from the tour. “Just groupings, flower groupings, and yard art, things like that.”
Beverly Carlson of Lawrenceville was meandering through the fifth garden on the tour, dubbed the “Romantic Retreat” on Dunriver Drive, admiring the water features there.
“Just looking at some wonderful landscaping, it inspires you to do something at your own home, so it’s very motivating,” Carlson said, adding she was particularly inspired by the simplistic nature of the gardens on the tour.
“You just think, ‘Oh, I can do this at home.’ That in itself is very inspiring, I think,” Carlson said. “People just taking ordinary backyards and just turning them into something spectacular for their family and friends to enjoy.”
One of the highlights in the Romantic Retreat was a vegetable garden homeowner Gloria Sill planted from seed with her 6-year-old grandson, Shawn Marshman of Duluth.
“I made the labels ahead of time … and he decided where things were going to go and so we planted it wherever he made the decision to go,” Sill said. “Of course, they’re not perfect, but it’s the most beautiful lettuce I’ve ever had, so that’s what love will do for you.”
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