Buoyed by a beautiful Spring day, nearly 350 ticketholders visited the five diverse properties featured in last week’s 26th Annual Spring Garden Tour. Presented by the Wimberley Garden Club in a well-coordinated effort, visitors toured two long-time family properties restored after the 2015 Memorial Day flood, one situated on the Blanco River and the other on Cypress Creek; a one-acre homestead of ornamental and edible bounty; and two private farms with diverse missions.
At the different locations, guests strolled the gardens to live acoustic music, purchased artwork by Wimberley Valley Art League artists and at several locations, shopped for plants. Docents relayed the histories and other property details to visitors.
Likely the best attended WGC tour ever, one visitor remarked, “Listening to the music and walking through the gardens was like being in a fairy tale.”
A 15-acre, no-till, manually worked garden and orchard “market” farm, established in 2021, allowed visitors to see an innovative garden that is “phenomenally productive.” Just one acre of the 15 is farmed and the rest is filled with fruit trees, native heritage trees, wildflowers and native grasses.
The other farm on
