OPEN DAYS AND DIGGING DEEPER GARDEN TOURS 2022
OPEN DAYS: Saturday-Sunday, July 30 and 31. DIGGING DEEPER: Saturday-Sunday, August 20 and 21.
The Milwaukee Art Museum Garden Club is participating in Open Days, a national program of The Garden Conservancy.
Tour more than 11 acres of unique, rarely open, private gardens at three locations in Milwaukee County, open on Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31 from 10 AM to 4 PM. More details and pictures are below.
The Milwaukee Art Museum Garden Club and The Garden Conservancy are also sponsoring a premier Digging Deeper event at Sally Edgett’s Garden Gone Wild for a small group on Saturday, August 20, 2 PM to 4 PM and Sunday, August 21, 10 AM to Noon. This is a “must attend” for lovers of native plants who want to learn how to incorporate them into their garden. Additional details are below.
Tickets are on sale now; advance purchase is required and tickets are limited.
For more information and to purchase tickets, use the “Buy Tickets” link above, or go to The Garden Conservancy website: gardenconservancy.org, click the tab for “Open Days”, then click “Open Days Gardens” and search by state for “Wisconsin" for tickets for July 30 and July 31. For tickets for August 20 and August 21, click “Digging Deeper” and scroll down to those dates.
Save the dates and buy your tickets now!
THE GARDENS:
The Vineyard at River Hills
The Vineyard at River Hills features a 2-acre vineyard of winter-hearty grapes, a large vegetable and soft fruit garden and cutting garden, wild areas, including a pond, and sun and shade perennial borders, surrounding a 100-year-old house on a 5-acre plot.
The Robbins Garden
The Robbins Garden, also in River Hills, contains stunning perennial borders in the English style, a colorful assemblage of Wisconsin prairie plants that bloom from late spring into fall, and artist-designed works, including a hand-painted scuba diver and marine animals on the bottom of the pool.
The Tsai Garden
The Tsai Garden in Bayside packs an amazing amount of color, texture and creativity into a suburban lot. The owner is constantly testing new plants to see if they meet her expectations for vigor and color, and then incorporates them into her garden tapestry. Visits to Japan have led to the incorporation of evergreens into interesting, unexpected and beautiful plant combinations.
Garden Gone Wild, Digging Deeper Event.
This premium event for small groups is on Saturday, August 20 from 2 PM to 4 PM or Sunday, August 21 from 10 AM to Noon.
Gardening with native plants has been growing in popularity.
Visit Sally Edgett’s Garden Gone Wild to learn how to successfully incorporate native plants into your garden.
Sally took classes with Darrel Morrison, referred to as “the elder statesman of the ecological landscape movement” by the New York Times, in the 1970s. Building on a childhood fascination with “wild flowers”, she has put her knowledge to work over the last 40 years.
Join Sally and discover the wealth of native plants that can enrich your garden, provide habitat for butterflies, bees, and other pollinators, and help restore the ecology of your landscape. Sally also has a wealth of non-native plants and will discuss how to incorporate some of her favorites along with natives into an established landscape.
The Robbins Garden
