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f00ardeners sprucing up Lewes for lOth annual garden tour me 17
Mature gardens, new gardens
and gardens in progress will all be
on display Saturday, June 17,
when Lewes Chamber of Com-
merce hosts its 10th Annual
Lewes Garden Tour. The Garden
Tour Weekend is one of the high-
lights of the annual summer sea-
son in Lewes.
This year's garden tour, from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., includes 12 dif-
ferent gardens featuring a wide
range of flowering and non-flow-
ering annuals and perennials, wa-
terfalls and ponds, interesting
statuary, outdoor trains and hid-
den places not usually available
to the public. Several of the gar-
dens will have local, artists work-
ing on scenes on location.
In addition to the tour, this
year's Garden Tour weekend also
will fill Zwaanendael Park with a
garden market featuring 45 ven-
dors of gardening and related
items - including plants.
There will also be free lectures
in Zwaanendael Park throughout
the day and refreshments for sale.
The weekend starts off with a
Garden Cocktail Party from 6:30
to 8 p.m. Friday, June 16, on the
patio deck of the ferry terminal in
Lewes. The cocktail party will
include a silent art auction and
live entertainment by the jazz
combo Black Diamonds. Tickets
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Dennis Forney photos
The gardens surrounding the home of Dodie and Tom Crowley in Shipcarpenter Square
have been a work in progress since 1993.
The garden of Mike and Mary Rawl is filled with birdhous-
es that Mary collects and other items that the pair gather for
their Auntie M's Emporium. The house and surrounding gar-
den are an eclectic blending of plantings and magical pieces.
The curvilinear brick
walkway leading to the
handmade gateway to Mari-
lyn Nugent's back garden
provides a senseof the artis-
tic that infuses this Lewes
Garden Tour stop.
Marilyn Nugent's unique artwork is on display for patrons
of the 10th Lewes Garden Tour. Her outdoor art provides a
glimpse into the excitement of the garden behind the home.
The gardens of the Royal Retreat Bed and Breakfast have
been renovated and imporved in the past year and are part of
the 10th annual Lewes Garden Tour.
Banks of polyantha "fairy" roses border the gardens of this
home on Mulberry Street in Lewes. Garden Tour patrons will
have access to the back garden of this property which in-
cludes a number of dramatic outdoor rooms defined with
unique plantings of trees.
Dozens of wildly-colored fish including koi, shubunkin, comet, oranda, black bugeye and
common goldfish fill the extensive garden pond behind Charles Sensenig's Bay Breeze home.
The pond, with a number of waterfalls, was designed and constructed by Sensenig, Joe Bak-
er and Rick McReynolds and is accented with a wide variety of water plants and border
plants that fill niches on its edges.