Saving the planet one garden at a time The 3rd Annual Green Gardens Tour — Santa Monica, featuring home gardens which are becoming ecologically sound in Southern California’s climate, has been set for Saturday, April 28. The tour offers demonstrations of sustainable techniques and practices along with the sublime beauty of green gardens throughout Santa Monica, all of which emphasize the tour’s motto, “Sustainable is Attainable!”
All proceeds from the tour support the Virginia Avenue Project, which offers free performing arts and tutoring programs that nurture children growing up under difficult circumstances.
The Green Gardens Tour is growing in popularity with gardening enthusiasts and with those interested in doing positive things for the environment. The tour balances beauty with knowledge, emphasizing cutting-edge green ideas and technologies with an understanding that home gardens take many steps to becoming fully sustainable.
What makes the Green Gardens Tour a friendly tour is the committee of landscape professionals and garden enthusiasts who serve as docents at each garden. Their in-garden advice, as well as green information and publications, means that each tourist walks away with easy-to-understand information that can be put into action in their own garden. Demonstrations of simple gardening techniques and technologies are scheduled at each garden.
What makes the Green Gardens Tour beautiful is the choice of gardens which demonstrates that green gardens can be lush, colorful, and inexpensive — much less expensive than gardens which rely on too much water and too much of the home gardener’s valuable time.
Tickets and information are available at (310) 264-4224, or at www.VirginiaAvenueProject.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 9, 2007. Read the original PDF.