Comments

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   pattyspencer 01/10/2013

   Nice! I really like the 2nd pic down on the 1st row. I've never been on a garden tour - maybe someday.

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   meander_michaele 01/10/2013

   What an absolute treasure of a community Union Hill must be. Garden tours are such a treat. As much as we each love our own gardens, it is so fun to get to stroll around some one else's and appreciate their efforts and vision. Looks like the houses in this area are filled with charm and personality...hmmm, the older I get, the more I love Victorian architecture. I'll bet that's a progression many others share.

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   MichelleGervais 01/10/2013

   Ha! Meander1, I might be the exception to the rule. The older I get the more I look at Victorian houses like this and think about how much money it would cost to repaint them. But gosh, they are beautiful!

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   wwross 01/10/2013

   Wow. This beautiful garden gives me some great ideas for plant and hard scape composition in a semi-urban, semi-formal context.

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   meander_michaele 01/10/2013

   Yes Michelle, you are sooo right when it comes to the cost and care of properly maintaining Victorian architecture. I guess I put myself in the passive appreciation category. I'm happy some others have the addiction although I know I could never be a worthy owner of those types of homes. When I was younger, I was drawn to sleek contemporary looks but I have evolved into more of a traditionalist.

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   MichelleGervais 01/10/2013

   Meander1--I'm going in the opposite direction. I live in a house built in 1871 now, and I love it for the most part, but I dream of building a low, sleek modern house, super-insulated, with large overhangs and low-maintenance materials like a metal roof and cement board siding. I want a modern-leaning garden, too, and lots of containers!
   I really wish I could be passively appreciative (love that term--thank you!) of antique houses, but my hubby is in the construction field, so I know WAY too much about houses....and living in our house, with it's old-house needs, doesn't help.

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   tractor1 01/10/2013

   Maybe I need new glasses but from looking at the past photos that house doen't look victorian at all, it's a very contemporary split level. The landscaping can pass for victorian but not the architecture. I remember that house very well by it's old world euro chimneys. Its trim can pass for Scandinavian.

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   daisy8 01/10/2013

   Thank you for posting pictures from the Union Hill Garden Tour. I love going on garden walks for inspiration & great ideas although there are only a few in my area each year. I would love to see other pictures people have taken from past garden walks in their areas of the country. I also really love the second picture down on the first row with the focal point at the end of the path and the lovely blue hydrangea.

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   tractor1 01/10/2013

   I like the second picture down on the right side because it contains that lovely blue sky, but then I noticed that oblisk that looks like the Washington monument, and then I noticed that what seems to be on the other side of that fence is a cemetery.

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    sheila_schultz 01/10/2013

    What I like the most is that the visitors of these lush gardens help with the upkeep of the nearby cemetery. Pretty unusual, I'm guessing...
    Meander1 and Michelle, I know where you both are coming from. We've lived in a 100+ year old home and a 30 year old home... different eras, different problems. Loved them both, but I do miss the craftmanship and history of our 'old' place.

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    KVgarden 01/10/2013

    You're correct, Tractor1, that is the cemetery on the other side of the fence.
    Kathy

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    cwheat000 01/11/2013

    Thank you so much for the wonderful garden tour. One of my New Year's garden resolutions is to go on more tours this season.