AUBURN / OPELIKA GARDEN TOUR
Sponsored by the Lee County Master Gardeners
Saturday, May 20, 10am– 5pm
Sunday, May 21, from 1pm - 5pm
A Thank You Note:
The Lee County Master Gardeners would like to thank everyone who
participated in our first garden tour. We had submitted a Project
Proposal to the Alabama Master Gardeners Association (ALMGA) requesting seed money for the tour. Our thanks are due to ALMGA and the Regions Bank of Auburn for their generous monetary support. We are grateful to Blooming Colors, Rattling Gourd Gallery, Waid Garden Center, Out In The Garden, Southern Crossing and Charter Bank of Opelika for selling advance tickets. Thank you to channel 3 WRBL, channel 9 WTVM, channel 66 WSWS and Maggie Lawrence with Back Yard Wisdom on WTSU for spotlighting the tour.
A special thanks to Chuck Brown with Lee County Extension and Shirley Flora with Keep Opelika Beautiful for writing wonderful things about the tour in their weekly news columns. A very special thank you to Donathan Prater and William White for the wonderful front-page article on the garden tour in the Opelika-Auburn News. We know this helped to promote and get many visitors to tour these magnificent gardens. Most of all we thank all of those who visited the gardens. We hope you found ideas and learned about different plants to use in your own backyards. We heard you loud and clear that you would like to do this every year. We’re already preparing for next year’s tour in May, so mark your calendars.On behalf of the 2006 Garden Tour Committee
Patti Householder
President, Lee County Master Gardeners
Congratulations to the Raffle Winners!
There were door prizes at each of the eight gardens and we congratulate the following raffle winners. We thank Out in the Garden, Petals from the Past, Rattling Gourd Gallery, D&K Nursery, Auburn Super Wal-Mart, Blooming Colors, Jolly Roberts, Patti Householder and William B. Shell for providing the door prizes.Garden #1 Virginia Campbell Southern Living Book & 2 hr Consultation by Jolly Roberts, Landscape Architect
Garden #2 Lois Kaserman Gothic Arch Planter (Out in the Garden)
Garden #3 Prissy Goodson Mixed Plant Container (put together by Patti Householder)
Garden #4 Nancy Adams Petals from the Past Gift Certificate
for Antique Rose
Garden #5 Doug Klinkenborg Blooming Colors Garden Tool Bucket
Garden #6 Anna Krista Iron Cricket (Rattling Gourd Gallery) &
Wal-Mart Gift Certificate
Garden #7 Tom Straub Japanese Maple (Grafted and provided by
William B. Shell)
Garden #8 Margaret Melzer 2 – 15 gal Crepe Myrtles (D&K Nursery)
Informational Brochure 
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Click here to watch Garden Tour Video (5MB - 320x240)
(7MB - 450x330)
Background music for the presentation is taken from the CD "Kahealani"
by Jeff Peterson of Honolulu, HI.
Following were the gardens included in the 2006 Garden Tour:
1. Margaret & Floyd Stewart, Opelika
2. Cecile & John Morgan, Opelika
3. Nelda & Willie Boswell, Opelika
4. Carol & Gary Keever, Auburn
5. Becky & Ed Lewis, Auburn
6. Tasha & Tom Worden, Auburn
7. Mary & Tom Corley, Lee County
8. Patti & Jerry Householder, Lee~County
These eight gardens were chosen because each is unique and different.
Together they provide a variety of garden styles and sizes to inspire
local gardeners. Our goal is to provide an enjoyable and educational
experience that promotes gardening, shows examples of what can be grown in
our area and helps familiarize the public with the MG program and
services. There are many wonderful gardens to visit in Lee County. In this
year’s search alone, we found enough great gardens to have two garden
tours. We are hopeful that this will be the first of many such tours. The
possibilities are as endless as the ways in which people work to create
gardens.
If you would like to make a suggestion of a garden (including yours) to be
included in future garden tours (2007 or later), please contact any one of
us in the garden tour committee.2007 Garden Tour Committee
Jolly Roberts (Tour Coordinator) (826-1595)
Patti Householder (887-2237)
Diane Blue (745-5529)
Tomie Dugas (821-9347)
Barbara Whatley (727-0511)
Jaya Krishnagopalan (826-7448)
Judith Nunn (256-825-2112)