Opening America's Best Private Gardens since 1995
5 Gardens, $5 each or all 5 for $20. May 5, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
http://www.gardenconservancy.org/opendays/open-days-schedule/openday/487-dallas-open-day
Spring is finally upon us, and we are extremely excited about the private gardens you can visit through our 2012 Open Days season. Hundreds of gardeners around the country are awaiting your visit. See the complete schedule of Open Days gardens here!
If you don't see gardens in your area and would like to help us change that, please do call or e-mail us at 1.888.842.2442 or opendays@gardenconservancy.org. In the meantime, we are happy to share some photographs from our 2011 season and invite you to do the same. Click here to visit our Open Days Flickr group.
Gardens
- Butterfly Farm 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
11007 Cactus Lane
Dallas, TX 75238This is a working butterfly farm. It includes a ten-by-twenty flight cage filled with butterflies and a ten-by-ten indoor room where larvae are raised. The garden includes many butterfly host plants such as milkweed, pipevine, and passion vine, each attracting a specific butterfly to the garden. You will also see a lot of plumeria as this is one of my favorite flowers. - Garden of Matthew Nichols 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
2529 Sunset Avenue
Dallas, TX 75211Matthew Nichols’ tropical, urban garden belies its location in the West Dallas area of Oakcliff. Most of the garden resides in raised beds as the native soil is alkaline and shallow. The design of the eight year old garden is informal, yet lush in textures. Most of the collection focuses on: cold hardy palms, cold hardy citrus, hardy subtropicals, xeric natives, cycads, bamboo, broadleaf evergreens, antique and Earth-Kind® roses. There are many citrus varieties growing on multi-grafted trees. Many plants are being tested to find the best low maintenance, hardy varieties for North Texas where blazing summers, drought and winter temperatures into the teens are common. - Merritt/Kleinmann 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
11535 Hillcrest
Dallas, TX 75230This is Texas architect O'Neil Ford's 1958 modernist house with garden design by a Dallas couple and landscape architect partners, Arthur and Marie Berger. Berger ‘signatures’ are the curved raised planters of Mexican brick, layering of evergreen and deciduous tree plantings (creating the ‘Texas Chiaroscuro’), and variations of groundcovers for shade gardens to complement the Ford’s linear residential design. - Middleton Farm 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
4435 Middleton Road
Dallas, TX 75229A suburban oasis loosely composed as three distinct aspects. A casual, manicured space of green lawn, bamboo enclosure, and trickling water that emanates from a small koi pond comprise the first garden. A lush and rampant garden of flowering trees and enclosing evergreens gives privacy and a natural expression to the pool and outside dining patios and a respite from the unrelenting summer sun. The third garden is business, comprised of irrigated raised beds filled with vegetables and culinary herbs with a backdrop of peach trees. - Paul & Kay Passmore 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
11626 Saint Michaels Drive
Dallas, TX 75230The gardens surround a new contemporary house on a half-acre property in North Dallas. The landscape was installed between spring and fall of 2010. The owner is a master gardener who likes to focus on native and water-wise plants to create a habitat that invites nature—birds and butterflies—into the garden. Zoysia lawn areas, stone walkways, and terracing make pathways to antique roses and bunch grasses.
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United States