Last weekend was filled with flowers. The Oak Park Garden Walk took place last Saturday, and I went by myself (very quickly) to six of the nine gardens included. Then on Sunday, I took Eleanor along to the Park Ridge Garden Walk where we met up with my mom and her two youngest, Ross and Francesca. We also saw six (out of seven) gardens on Sunday, but it took a little longer with three children under five along. ;) Here are a few highlights…
This was easily the star of the Oak Park Garden Walk. There were 50′ arborvitae surrounding the property.
When you entered the garden you felt like you had been transported to a different place.
There were glass spheres in the garden, tucked amongst the flowers. This photo doesn’t capture how beautiful they were — they looked like bubbles.
There was also a lovely potting bench and bicycle. I’m sure it looks like this all the time, right?
Moving on to some of the other gardens, here’s an awesome bamboo fence…
A fun bird topiary…
A striking white hosta…
(I want some of these in my garden too.)
An old bicycle as a planter…
And a tooth-shaped toy box that was turned into a planter for the garden of a dentist.
It all just makes me want to do more work to our little garden! Not so easy with a newborn, but at least the planning is almost as much fun as the doing.
p.s. If you want to see more photos of the Park Ridge Garden Walk, my mom has been posting them on her blog.