Historic Garden Week 2020

The Nation's Only Statewide House and Garden Tour Continues to Keep Virginia Beautiful. Historic Garden Week provides visitors an opportunity to see unforgettable gardens at the peak of Virginia's springtime color, as well as beautiful houses decorated with over 2,300 flower arrangements created by Garden Club of Virginia members. The annual fundraiser features tours hosted by Garden Club member clubs located in communities across the state. This guidebook includes descriptions of all featured properties, as well as logistical information for each tour. Proceeds fund the restoration of Virginia's historic public gardens and provide graduate level research fellowships, and grants to support Virginia State Parks for our 2020 Centennial Project. This year, the Garden Club of Virginia turns 100. We invite you to help us celebrate our Centennial with an exceptional week of exploring Virginia's treasures.

As the Garden Club of Virginia's largest fundraiser, Historic Garden Week proceeds support the ongoing restoration and preservation of Virginia's historic public gardens and landscapes, as well as a research fellowship program for students in landscape architecture.

Since 1957, Chase's Calendar of Events lists everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and much more. "The Oxford English Dictionary of holidays." NPR's Planet Money.

Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this book provides an update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon of garden visitation. It delves into new themes and contemporary trends, from art and culture to psychographic profiling of visitors and how social media and semiotics are used to enrich visitor experience and fuel motivation. In addition to these new topics, the book also expands on important areas such as the continued rise of urban gardens, garden events, historic gardens and garden economics.

Let us introduce you to the most beautiful private homes and gardens in Virginia this spring. Whether it's the inspiring gardens, the architecture, the history or the Instagram-worthy flower arrangements created by Garden Club of Virginia members, and with 28 tours to choose from, Historic Garden Week in Virginia offers something for everyone. The only statewide house and garden tour in the nation, this annual springtime ritual includes access to private properties in communities large and small, many open for the very first time to the public.

The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 66 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been beloved for centuries by people from all walks of life. As the nation's iconic calendar, the 2020 edition will forecast cultural, culinary, and other life-changing trends; preview notable astronomical events; provide time- and money-saving tips for gardeners of all varieties; set the hook for best fishing days; forecast traditionally 80 percent-accurate weather; and cover a range of related topics, including anniversaries, folklore, husbandry, home remedies, recipes, amusement, contests, and more--too much more to mention--all in the inimitable way it has done since 1792.