It's spring time and the wild flowers are beckoning. Come and enjoy a truly unique garden that uses it land's properties and characteristics to define the type of plantings--from succulents and heavy sun to trees, azaleas and a babbling brook.
General meeting and special acitivity.
April 10, 2008
Trip to Peckerwood Gardens
Hempstead, TX
Lunch at Brookwood
Approximate Cost:
Tour $10.00
Lunch $16 includes beverage and gratuity. Choice between chicken and pork, soup or salad, iced tea or coffee.
Gas $5.00 (suggested donation to driver).
Send your check for $26 to Marilyn Ellis to be received by March 27th. Make it payable to Quail Valley Garden Club.
Peckerwood gardens is a unique setting of rare plants, trees, distinctive outdoor sculptures, and folk art native to a wide region of the southern U.S. and Mexico, mingled with Asian counterparts. Check it out.
We will meet in the parking lot across the street from the Quail Valley Country Club and leave promptly at 8:15 am --so plan to get there by 8:00.
Tour Peckerwood Garden at 10:00 am.
Lunch at Brookwood at 12:30.
Shop and look at Brookwood and be back in Quail Valley around 4 pm.
For additional information, please contact Marilyn Ellis at 281-438-5990.
More about Peckerwood . . .
In 1998 a non profit foundation, the Peckerwood Garden Conservation Foundation, was formed with guidance from the Garden Conservancy to insure the preservation and continued development of the garden and its diverse educational and conservation projects.