Waterford - Leesburg Garden Club
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Waterford - Leesburg Garden Club
–FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE– Waterford Where the past is always present April 22, 2013 2 10am–5pm A walking tour presented by the Leesburg Garden Club, the Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club and the Garden Club of Virginia to benefit the restoration of historic Virginia gardens. Photography by Steve Hillebrand Tour Highlights 1 This is the 80th Anniversary of the Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week Home and Garden Tour. 80 th Anniversary! • 1 Funds raised during Historic Garden Week are used toward the restoration of historic gardens and grounds across the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1 Tour home, Joseph Janney House was named as one of Top Ten Historic Homes for 2012 by the Washington Post. 1 The newly restored Waterford Old School serves as tour headquarters. 1 Number seven on tour, the Wauchope House has never before been open to the public. 1 Except for a short drive to the Wauchope House, this is a walking tour through the village of Waterford, VA. Map will be provided. Wear comfortable walking shoes. 1 Floral arrangements in tour homes are created by members of the Leesburg Garden Club, Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club and other local garden clubs. 1 Box lunches are available by reservation by April 17, 2013. Contact Suzanne Worsham at swworsham@aol.com for details. 1Admission $20 single home; tour all six properties $30 in advance or $35 on the day of tour; ages 6–12 are half price; 5 and younger are free. See www.leesburggardenclub.org for details of ticket locations or by mail order. Tickets may be purchased securely on line at www.vagardenweek.org. 1 Outlets for tickets: In Leesburg–The Marshall House, Loudoun Convention & Visitors Association, Leesburg Vintner, Oatlands Plantation; in Middleburg–The Pink Box; Waterford– Waterford Old School; at individual homes day of tour. 1Visit www.leesburggardenclub.org for more details. For more information visit www.leesburggardenclub.org or call 540-338-5453 Historic Garden Week is presented by the Garden Club of Virginia and is conducted for one week only April 20–27, 2013. Owners of over 200 homes and gardens around the Commonwealth open their doors and garden gates to the public to showcase historic properties. Thirty outstanding tours presented by individual affiliated garden clubs generate funds to restore cherished historic gardens and grounds of Virginia’s prominent places and historic figures, including George and Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James and Dolley Madison, Patrick Henry, George Mason, Robert E. Lee and Woodrow Wilson.
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