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The Gardeners of Crooked Billet are opening up five area gardens for all to view Saturday as part of the club's annual tour.

Roses and lilies and hibiscus, oh my!

Nature in all its wondrous, beautiful glory will be on display Saturday as the host an annual garden tour 

Here's a tour overview of gardening novices and green thumbs alike can expect from the tour, which is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. 

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The Nguyen Garden/Horsham

The serene scene includes a formal rose garden, with white swans swimming in the small lake, gorgeous magical bonsais, a Koi pond and vegetable garden.

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The Kraske Garden/Horsham 

The front perennial garden's focal point is a Montgomery blue spruce and prairie fire crab apple tree which filters the sunlight for dahlias, lilies, foxgloves, hydrangeas, cone flowers, and roses. Follow the curving brick path passing crepe myrtles, butterfly bushes, roses, and oak leaf hydrangeas.

This path leads to the patio entrance guarded by a Colorado blue spruce and viburnum, while the other end of the  patio is anchored by Leland cypresses. The kidney-shaped patio is surrounded by pinkie winkies, crepe myrtles, knock-out roses and two more Montgomery blue spruces. Pink, purple and blue hydrangeas form a colorful backdrop along the back of the patio.

Follow the four steps down to the lower patio garden featuring a three-level water fountain surrounded by ferns, mandevilla, and hibiscus. Throughout the summer, butterflies and humming birds are attracted to many cone flowers, liatris, black-eyed susans, bee balm, and daisies surrounding the fountain.

The Brown Garden/Horsham 

Here visitors will see a collection of many different colors, textures, and a diverse assortment of plants. Pink primroses, purple iris and peonies are just a few of the flowers that you will see. Besides flowers, this garden offer a variety of shrubs and trees.   

The Ford Garden/Hatboro    

It is a beautiful little gem of a garden tucked in back of a professional office on busy York Road. The garden attracts many birds, bees, butterflies - and even the occasional snake.

A shade garden, ferns, sweet woodruff, and an arbour that has clematis, are joined by roses here and there, window boxes, a pansy wreath and the beginnings of a rock garden.  

The Rosenzweig Garden/Southampton

This garden has expanded and transitioned from a mix of vegetables, annuals, and perennials to all perennials. At first, plantings were mulched, but now ground covers (mostly evergreen) beautifully set off the tightly planted iris, peonies, deutzia, clematis, sundrops, lilies, and roses, as well as prevent weeds from invading. A once-barren shade garden is now filled with shrubs, bottle brush buckeyes, and perennials, including many varieties of hellebores.

If you go

The Gardeners of Crooked Billet's annual garden tour will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets may be purchased ahead of time at in Horsham or in Hatboro. Advance tickets cost $6. On the day of the tour, tickets may be purschased at Toby's, LeRoy's, and the Hatboro Federal Parking Lot for $7. Proceeds will fund a scholarship for a Hatboro-Horsham student. 


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