74 Hosted by The Garden Club of Gloucester Chairman Jane Worthington (804) 815-5057 [email protected]Co-Chairman Durfee Betts (617) 448-3724 Tickets: $35 pp. Available on tour day at headquarters, Ware Episcopal Church, by credit card, cash or check. Advance Tickets: $30 pp. www.vagarden- week.org. Children 12 and under are free. No single-house tickets sold. By April 9, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with check payable to GCG c/o Margaret Singleton, P.O. Box 1388, Gloucester, VA 23061. Tickets are available until April 20 at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, Angelwing Sta- tioners, and Mathews County Visitor & Information Center. Check or cash only. Tour Headquarters: Ware Episcopal Church, 7825 John Clayton Memorial Hwy., Gloucester. Tickets and maps available on tour day. $12 pp. Pre-ordered box lunches available for pickup from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Nuttall’s Country Store, 6495 Ware Neck Road, Ware Neck. (804) 693-3067 or [email protected] by Friday, April 13 to pre-order. A special tour day à la carte menu available in the store from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nuttall’s Store is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has served the Ware Neck community since 1875. Visit the store on Facebook: Nuttall’s Store. Learn the countless stories behind the artifacts, heirlooms and unique building materials of three properties with magnificent river views on this driving and shuttle tour. Tour Auburn, the plantation featured on the cover of the 2018 guidebook. Built in 1824, the property was once owned by Charles Heath, father of the daffodil industry in Gloucester, and later, in the 1970s, by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Visit another home from the same period featuring whimsical touches and interesting gardens, and a newer home filled with original art collected and created by its owner. Gloucester- Mathews Satuday, April 21, 2018 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photo courtesy of Sandy Geiger 75 Gloucester-Mathews $10 pp. Good Life Kitchen will be providing day-of-tour lunches at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil Lane, Gloucester from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both hot entrées with sides and box lunches will be available including their award-winning Chicken Curry Salad. The Chesapeake Bay Room, at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, available for lunchtime seating. The 2nd annual Gloucester Garden Marketplace, featuring six regional vendors selling home and garden accesso- ries, home décor, as well as clothing and jewelry at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Master Gardeners of Gloucester avail- able for guided tours of Brent & Becky’s Chesapeake-Bay-friendly gardens from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. Directions to Brent & Becky’s Bulbs: From Ware Episcopal Church, go east on Rt. 14 for 1.1 mi., turn right on Ware Neck Rd./ Rt. 623, prepare to bear left and follow signs to parking. Complimentary and served from 3 to 5 p.m. at Cottage Point. Raffle drawing takes place at 3:30 p.m. Facilities: Available at all tour sites, shuttle parking lot at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs and Headquarters at Ware Episcopal Church. Available at Ware Episcopal Church, Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, Auburn and Dunham Massie Farm. Shuttles provided to Cottage Point from Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil Ln., Gloucester. Directions: To Auburn from Ware Episcopal Church, go east on Rt. 14 for 7.5 mi. Turn right on Rt. 620/Chapel Neck Rd. for 2 mi. Turn left on Old Auburn Rd. 0.4 miles to en- trance. To Dunham Massie from Ware Epis- copal Church take Rt. 14 for 1.1 miles. Turn right on Ware Neck Rd./Rt. 623 and drive 2.6 mi to Nuttall’s Store. Take left at Dun- ham Massie Ln./Rt. 692 and drive 1 mi. to entrance. GPS may discontinue at Nuttall’s Store; follow signs. Cottage Point can only be accessed via provided shuttles. Auburn 11 Old Auburn Road, North Located on the banks of the North Riv- er, Auburn Plantation has been one of the architectural and historical showplaces in Tidewater Virginia for almost two centuries. Completed in 1824 by Dr. Henry Wythe Tabb, it is an impressive Federal-style man- sion of three stories over an English base- ment. The Tabbs were prominent in early Gloucester and Mathews counties, with other branches of the family residing at Toddsbury, Waverly, Elmington and White Marsh. One of Dr. Tabb’s daughters, Mary Eliza, fell down the curving staircase in Au- burn’s front hall and died several hours later. Her ghost is said to appear on occasion. The satin slippers that Miss Tabb was wearing when the accident occurred are on display in the front hall. Misfortune came again when Hurricane Isabel struck, leaving mud and debris in her wake at the onset of a ma- jor expansion project. After a delayed start, work commenced on additions to both sides of the 19th century structure. Completed in 2005, the symmetrical wings blend seam- lessly, while adding modern amenities like a gourmet kitchen and an extensive master suite. Doors from a church in Richmond and iron gates from the White House of the Confederacy were chosen to lend historical authenticity. An outstanding wine cellar re- flects the owners’ passion and incorporates pieces of stone from the Roman Colise- um, an old Tuscan villa, as well as “Hokie stone,” the limestone used in the buildings from Virginia Tech. The bar is construct- ed from an old Guinness vat. Ancient trees shade the property which is landscaped with English boxwoods, azaleas, camellias and crepe myrtles. Spring bulbs and perenni- als add color to the gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Claude S. (Chip) Hornsby III, owners. The Bulb Shoppe and Gardens at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs Where Home and Gardens come Alive! Open Monday-Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm 7900 Daffodil Lane, Gloucester (804) 693-3966 x108 www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com Sat, April 21 st : Open 10 am to 5 pm Photo courtesy of Ticket price includes admission to the following 3 locations:
Tickets: $35 pp. Available on tour day at headquarters, Ware Episcopal Church, by credit card, cash or check.
Advance Tickets: $30 pp. www.vagarden-week.org. Children 12 and under are free. No single-house tickets sold. By April 9, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with check payable to GCG c/o Margaret Singleton, P.O. Box 1388, Gloucester, VA
23061. Tickets are available until April 20 at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, Angelwing Sta-tioners, and Mathews County Visitor & Information Center. Check or cash only.
Tour Headquarters: Ware Episcopal Church, 7825 John Clayton Memorial Hwy., Gloucester. Tickets and maps available on tour day.
$12 pp. Pre-ordered box lunches available for pickup from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. at Nuttall’s Country Store, 6495 Ware Neck Road, Ware Neck. (804) 693-3067 or [email protected] by Friday, April 13 to pre-order. A special tour day à la carte menu available in the store from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nuttall’s Store is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has served the Ware Neck community since 1875. Visit the store on Facebook: Nuttall’s Store.
Learn the countless stories behind the artifacts, heirlooms and unique building materials of three properties with magnificent river views on this driving and shuttle tour. Tour Auburn, the plantation featured on the cover of the 2018 guidebook. Built in 1824, the property was once owned by Charles Heath, father of the daffodil industry in Gloucester, and later, in the 1970s, by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Visit another home from the same period featuring whimsical touches and interesting gardens, and a newer home filled with original art collected and created by its owner.
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$10 pp. Good Life Kitchen will be providing day-of-tour lunches at
Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil Lane, Gloucester from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Both hot entrées with sides and box lunches will be available including their award-winning Chicken Curry Salad. The Chesapeake Bay Room, at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, available for lunchtime seating.
The 2nd annual Gloucester Garden Marketplace, featuring six regional
vendors selling home and garden accesso-ries, home décor, as well as clothing and jewelry at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Master Gardeners of Gloucester avail-able for guided tours of Brent &
Becky’s Chesapeake-Bay-friendly gardens from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.
Directions to Brent & Becky’s Bulbs: From Ware Episcopal Church, go east on Rt. 14 for 1.1 mi., turn right on Ware Neck Rd./Rt. 623, prepare to bear left and follow signs to parking.
Complimentary and served from 3 to 5 p.m. at Cottage Point. Raffle drawing
takes place at 3:30 p.m.
Facilities: Available at all tour sites, shuttle parking lot at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs and Headquarters at Ware Episcopal Church.
Available at Ware Episcopal Church, Brent & Becky’s Bulbs,
Auburn and Dunham Massie Farm. Shuttles provided to Cottage Point from Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil Ln., Gloucester.
Directions: To Auburn from Ware Episcopal Church, go east on Rt. 14 for 7.5 mi. Turn right on Rt. 620/Chapel Neck Rd. for 2 mi. Turn left on Old Auburn Rd. 0.4 miles to en-trance. To Dunham Massie from Ware Epis-copal Church take Rt. 14 for 1.1 miles. Turn right on Ware Neck Rd./Rt. 623 and drive 2.6 mi to Nuttall’s Store. Take left at Dun-ham Massie Ln./Rt. 692 and drive 1 mi. to entrance. GPS may discontinue at Nuttall’s Store; follow signs. Cottage Point can only be accessed via provided shuttles.
Auburn11 Old Auburn Road, North
Located on the banks of the North Riv-er, Auburn Plantation has been one of the architectural and historical showplaces in Tidewater Virginia for almost two centuries. Completed in 1824 by Dr. Henry Wythe Tabb, it is an impressive Federal-style man-sion of three stories over an English base-ment. The Tabbs were prominent in early
Gloucester and Mathews counties, with other branches of the family residing at Toddsbury, Waverly, Elmington and White Marsh. One of Dr. Tabb’s daughters, Mary Eliza, fell down the curving staircase in Au-burn’s front hall and died several hours later. Her ghost is said to appear on occasion. The satin slippers that Miss Tabb was wearing when the accident occurred are on display in the front hall. Misfortune came again when Hurricane Isabel struck, leaving mud and debris in her wake at the onset of a ma-jor expansion project. After a delayed start, work commenced on additions to both sides of the 19th century structure. Completed in 2005, the symmetrical wings blend seam-lessly, while adding modern amenities like a gourmet kitchen and an extensive master suite. Doors from a church in Richmond and iron gates from the White House of the Confederacy were chosen to lend historical authenticity. An outstanding wine cellar re-flects the owners’ passion and incorporates pieces of stone from the Roman Colise-um, an old Tuscan villa, as well as “Hokie stone,” the limestone used in the buildings from Virginia Tech. The bar is construct-ed from an old Guinness vat. Ancient trees shade the property which is landscaped with English boxwoods, azaleas, camellias and crepe myrtles. Spring bulbs and perenni-als add color to the gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Claude S. (Chip) Hornsby III, owners.
The Bulb Shoppe and Gardensat Brent and Becky’s Bulbs
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7900 Daffodil Lane, Gloucester(804) 693-3966 x108
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Ticket price includes admission to the following 3 locations:
Cottage PointAccessed via shuttle
Located on the Ware River in Ware Neck, Cottage Point includes “The Studio,” the main house and a garage. The Studio was constructed in 1998 and was used as a weekend retreat from Washington, D.C., until the main house followed in 2005. The five-and-a-half-acre property was part of a 1642 land grant to Thomas Curtis and was part of the Lowland Cottage tract un-til 1972, when Mrs. Grant inherited it from her father. Lowland Cottage was owned by Dr. William Taliaferro of Churchill Resi-dence and his descendants for six genera-tions. The Grants sited the house on Cot-tage Point to take full advantage of both upriver and downriver views of the Ware. A spacious riverside porch is the most no-ticeable feature. The interior contains many works of art by Mrs. Grant’s grandmother, Hallie Taliaferro Montague, and other ob-jects originally from Lowland Cottage with stories connected to them. From 1897 to 1902, Hallie Montague studied painting in Europe at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and then spent one more year studying under painting masters in Paris. The Studio at Cottage Point houses artworks by Mrs. Grant herself and a number of her artist friends. Mr. and Mrs. Willard S. Grant, owners.
Dunham Massie Farm7420 Dunham Massie Lane Ware Neck
An ancient red oak and an American flag greet visitors to Dunham Massie Farm. The welcoming avenue of willow oaks leads past wildflower meadows and a pond cre-ated for wildlife. This inviting home was built in 1845 on a picturesque peninsula on the North River. General William Booth Taliaferro, Gloucester’s highest-ranking officer in the Civil War, lived in the house and raised a large family there. The present owners, only the fifth family to have owned Dunham Massie, purchased the property in 1986. The interior and gardens are fur-nished with a mix of rustic antiques, fam-ily pieces and whimsical collection of folk art and memorabilia reflecting the owners’ love of animals. The 50-acre farm incorpo-rates lawns, an eco-friendly shoreline resto-ration and colorful cottage gardens tucked around the house. Its many outbuildings include a tiny two-story cottage, a sleeping porch at the river’s edge, a smokehouse, a garden shed, an outhouse and a corn crib. Visitors will enjoy both shade and sun gar-dens, a kitchen herb garden, a meditation garden and a woodland path leading to a secret garden. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Williams, owners.
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Places of Interest:Abingdon Episcopal Church, 4645 George Washington Memorial Hwy./Rt. 17, Glouces-ter. Established c. 1650 on land given by George Washington’s maternal grandfa-ther, Abingdon is Virginia’s largest Colonial church. The galleries are an example of this period with pews for the wealthy plantation owners (Burwell, Lewis, Thurston, Warner and Page families). Open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Chesapeake-Bay-Friendly Teaching Garden at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil Ln., Gloucester. This 8+ acre garden contains more than 20 themed “rooms” to demon-strate gardening that honors the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Mathews Visitor Center/Sibley’s Store, 239 Main St., Mathews. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this edifice dates from 1820. Closes at 4 p.m.
Rosewell Plantation Ruins, 5113 Old Rosewell Rd., Gloucester. Built in 1725 by Mann Page, Rosewell was the birthplace of Virginia Governor John Page and an archi-tectural inspiration to Thomas Jefferson, a frequent visitor. Ravaged by fire in 1916, the ruins stand today as a fine example of 18th century craftsmanship. The Garden Club of Virginia granted a research fellowship in 2003 to consolidate landscape records of the grounds. Closes at 4 p.m.
Tompkins Cottage, Brickbat Rd., Mathews. This c. 1815 cottage stands as one of the old-est wooden structures in the Court House. In 1837, it was purchased for use as a store-house by Christopher Tompkins, father of Capt. Sally Louisa Tompkins, C.S.A., the first female commissioned officer in the Confederate Army. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ware Episcopal Church, 7825 John Clayton Memorial Hwy., Gloucester. Established c. 1652, it is one of Gloucester’s four orig-inal parishes and one of Virginia’s earliest churches. Of the school of Sir Christopher Wren, the church is oriented to the sun instead of the four points of the compass. The graves of Gen. Wm. Booth Taliaferro and other Confederate soldiers occupy an historic cemetery. Open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Walter Reed’s birthplace, 4021 Hickory Fork Rd., Gloucester. Dr. Walter Reed, who discovered the cure for yellow fever, lived here as a child. Owned and maintained by The Gloucester Preservation Corporation. Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Zion Poplar Church, 7000 T.C. Walker Rd. Gloucester. One of the oldest independent African-American congregations in Glouces-ter County founded in 1886 when the first members met for religious services under seven poplar trees.
Tour Headquarters, Facilities and Special Activity: Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, 9750 Meadowlark Gardens Court, Vienna. Tickets, maps and restrooms available on tour day. There will be a Free King’s Park Flutes Concert 10 to noon.
Tickets: $50 pp available on tour day at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens and at tour homes. Tickets may be purchased with cred-it cards, checks and cash at Meadowlark
Botanical Gardens. At the tour homes and Great Falls Library no credit cards will be ac-cepted. Access to William Gunnell House is only by shuttle bus. Pick-up and drop-off at Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls. Tickets available at the Library.
Advance Tickets: $40 pp. www.vagarden-week.org or by mail before April 17. Send a self-addressed stamped envelope and check made out to The Garden Club of Fairfax to Marty Whipple, 11508 Yates Ford Road, Fairfax Station, VA 22039. (703) 978-4130 or [email protected] for questions.
Complimentary and available at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Experience 250 years of history in the once agricultural hills of northern Fairfax County. Near the picturesque village of Great Falls is a home built in 1750 as a hunting lodge for Lord Fairfax, for whom the county is named. Stroll through a quilt garden designed by the current owner and enjoy carefully tended fruit and vegetable gardens as well as landscaped vistas. In the historic town of Vienna, explore an 1892 home built on the grounds of the Grange Camp and a charming cottage designed for a couple to retire-in-place. A transitional executive home with a waterfall garden is showcased in nearby McLean. Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna is the tour headquarters, and admission is included with HGW ticket.
Great Falls, Vienna & McLean Tuesday, April 24, 2018 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
