2008 Garden Tour

Tickets can be purchased online for $55 per person.

Tickets will be held for you at check-in, and the address of check-in will be emailed to you upon your purchase.

The third annual Windsor Square-Hancock Park Garden Party & Tour will open private gardens to the public just in time for the height of the spring blooming season. Estate gardens in historic Hancock Park and Windsor Square as well as the exclusive gated community of Fremont Place will be open to the public Sunday, April 20, 2008, from 12 noon to 4 pm. The tour will be followed by a reception featuring tastings generously donated by local restaurants and a silent auction and opportunity drawing in a beautiful Hancock Park backyard.   Featured on the tour is a spectacular garden on Rossmore Avenue, originally designed in 1922 in the Italian style to be an outdoor extension of a newly built Tuscan-style villa designed by esteemed Los Angeles architect Francis Pierpont Davis. The garden has four sections: a formal garden, a “secret” garden, a woods that features a shade garden, and an orchard. Many of the gardens plantings are original. At least five additional gardens of varying styles will also be included on the tour.   Also on the tour is a unique railroad garden with handmade working trains running throughout a miniature garden, a drought-tolerant garden with an amazing collection of succulents, and a chateau with a parterre rose garden. The day also features expert lectures on ikebana (the art of Japanese flower arranging), eco-gardening and landscaping tips.   All profits from this event will go back to the community to create more green space in Los Angeles. The 2007 event raised more than $13,000 that has been allocated toward the installation and planting of traffic islands on a busy street in the neighborhood. In 2006, $10,000 was donated toward developing a green median on Larchmont Boulevard just north of Beverly Boulevard.

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