Tickets available for summer garden tour
The New Philadelphia Friends of the Library will host its first-ever garden tour fundraiser on Saturday, July 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are now on sale for the self-guided tour, which will include eight gardens in and around Tuscarawas County.
The New Philadelphia Friends of the Library will host its first-ever garden tour fundraiser on Saturday, July 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are now on sale for the self-guided tour that will include eight gardens in and around Tuscarawas County.
“The Friends are pleased to host this fundraiser,” Friends President Candy Beaber said. “Planning has been underway since last fall with garden and library enthusiasts from the community. It is going to be an enjoyable day for a great cause.”
Beaber said the proceeds from the tour will provide seed money for the Tuscarawas County Public Library System to start a library foundation.
“It is so appropriate that this fundraiser is centered on gardening,” library director Michelle McMorrow Ramsell said. “Gardening involves planting things to harvest in the future, and that, in essence, is the very purpose of a foundation.”
Ramsell said the foundation will provide a vessel for the library to receive gifts, and with investment and growth, it will benefit the Tuscarawas County Public Library System and its customers for years to come.
The self-guided tour will showcase gardens in and around Tuscarawas County including a variety of garden types and plants, from eclectic to formal and beyond.
Gardens on the tour are:
Isabelle House: Enter this private drive in Northwest Dover to view over 130 daylilies and a variety of shrubs and trees including yellow twig dogwoods, golden rush dawn redwoods, sweetbay magnolias, katsura trees, ninebark shrubs and seven son trees.
Family Heritage Garden: Explore the gardens of an original Reeve’s home with some plants dating back to its original owners. Other features include a brick walkway, sitting area, and numerous roses, lilacs and shade plants.
Dr. C’s Garden: Enjoy an array of annuals and vegetable plants at this small garden in New Philadelphia. As guests walk around the property, they will see the foliage of multiple canna varieties, flowering cacti, roses, daylilies and daises.
Yellow Arbor Vintage Garden: Smell the flowers of this nontraditional garden space. An extension of its vintage home in New Philadelphia, this garden has a summer room filled with flea market finds and an array of colorful plants.
My Fair Lady House: This colorful garden in Central New Philadelphia is full of perennials, ornamental shrubs and grasses. Tucked around the garden statues and archways are roses, irises, lilies and a rose of Sharon tree. Guests can hear the sound of water falling into the koi pond from its ornate water feature.
Be Still Garden: View this hillside garden in Strasburg featuring perennials, native wildflowers and a metal archway with decorative gourds. Around the home visitors can see several fairy gardens, a rock water feature and a shadegarden with hostas.
Hosta House: Located in Beach City, guests will find numerous perennials including hydrangea, astilbe, ferns, epimedium, grasses, 400 different varieties of daylilies, over 400 different varieties of hosta and many annuals. As guests walk through the gardens, they will hear the sound of water from the koi pond and various fountains that are displayed throughout.
Evergreen Garden: Take a stroll along the pond of this Zoar garden to view water lilies and other aquatic flowers. Sit in the gazebo and gaze at evergreen trees and perennials throughout the garden.
The money raised from this garden tour will include ticket sales as well as donated raffle and tag items related to gardening. At each garden there will be tag items for purchase and items available for raffle.
Tickets are available to purchase and pick up during normal business hours at Charmed: Gifts with Meaning, Daily Grind Café, the Tuscarawas County Convention and Visitors Bureau in New Philadelphia, and the library’s four branches in Bolivar, Strasburg, Sugarcreek and Tuscarawas. Tickets cost $15 and may be purchased by cash or check made out to the Friends of the Library NP.
In the event of rain, the tour will be held on Sunday, July 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on the tour, visit www.tusclibrary.org or call 330-364-4474 ext. 221.