Garden Tour Art - ART Extravaganza!
Back Yard Garden
by Art Kenyon
Light and Shadow
by Risa Johnson
Colvill Garden Tour
by Lynn Brown
Wildlife Garden
by Larry Veeder
Colvill Fairie Garden
by Ardee Rosasco
Petunia Study
by Dan Wiemer
Hillside Garden
by Pat Undis
Sunflowers
by Gale Berndt
Round Barn
by Robert Hodges-Bonawitz
Pyramid Trellis Garden
by Dan Wiemer
Hollyhocks through the Gate
by Dan Wiemer
Hollyhocks
by Susan Welsch
Garden Tour
BEST CONTAINER GARDEN-2010
Bonnie Mann, Garden Committe Chair, and Mary Brickzin-Gale
The 2010 Garden tour was July 11th from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
This very popular self-guided tour of local gardens includes the beauty of colorful flowers alongside the gentle sounds of live music and local artists painting at each location
Tour five beautiful gardens and one container garden during the Red Wing Arts Association GardenTour. Whether you're searching for new inspiration for your garden, want to enjoy beautiful blooms while listening to live music, or are curious to see how a garden inspires an artist, you'll find it all. Tickets are $10 per person and are available at the Red Wing Arts Association, local garden nursery's and downtown businesses. Master Gardeners will be at each location to answer your questions. Local musicians will be performing at each garden. A different regional artist will be creating a garden-inspired artwork at each location. The artwork will be for sale following the tour.
New this year, is a "Photographing the Garden" workshop. This workshop is free with your Garden Tour Passport ( ticket.) Stop by the Depot Gallery before the start of the Tour at 9:30 AM to hear Sandra Borgen, photographer, give tips on how professionals take garden photos. Each workshop participant may submit a photo from each garden for the Celebrating the Arts Festival here on July 24th!
Garden Tour Poster photo by Ted Horn.
The tour is self-guided, so you can begin at any of the gardens. Those unfamiliar with Red Wing will find it easiest to begin with the Container Garden at the Arts Association Depot Gallery at 418 Levee Street. At the Depot you can pick up a separate sheet with driving instructions for a pre-planned route to accompany the map that is printed on the Garden Passport.(ticket).
The Container Garden at the Depot Gallery illustrates both the variety of plants that can be grown in containers and how containers can be used to transform an area. You may come just to enjoy the beauty, but whether you have just a small porch or patio or acres of yard, you'll be inspired. Maybe it's the contrasts, the vivid colors, the different textures or the intriguing shapes, containers make plants standout. The containers are provided by the Goodhue County Horticultural Society, Hallstrom's Florist and Sargent's Nursery. Depot Gallery, 418 Levee St. Red Wing
Master Gardeners in each garden will have prepared information to share with visitors. Master Gardener take a core course of 48 hours of classroom instruction and complete an internship of 50 volunteer hours during their first year. Thier studies and volunteer work continue in subsiquent years, so don't be shy about asking them any of your garden questions. You'll find the Master Gardeners enthusiastic in their desire to share information with others.
For more information call 651-388-7569 or email to rwaa@redwing.net. The proceeds from ticket sales and from the sale of the artwork benefits the Red Wing Arts Association.