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| "A Little Garden Music... And Art Garden Tour" 2025 |
Welcome to This Month in the Garden! On Saturday, June 14th, the Sayville Garden Club and Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts (BAFFA) hosted their semi-annual afternoon garden tour featuring six gardens along with music and art. My husband and I were honored to be part of this local event for the third time since our previous involvement in 2010 and 2018. It was a cool and rainy day, but leave it to devoted gardeners to combat the weather and endure the elements to visit a garden or six! Despite the weather, it was an enjoyable and successful day! |
| Patio Planter with Hydrangea 'Jip Blue' |
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Daylily 'Stella D Oro' Along Patio Border
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| North Side with Kousa Dogwood 'Greensleeves' |
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| BAFFA Quartet: A Little Bit of Music! |
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Twombly's Red Sentinel Japanese Maple
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Spirea 'Candy Corn' and Lamb's Ear (Stachys)
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| Patio Border |
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Patio Border and Backyard Island Bed
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| Entry to the North "Secret Garden" |
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Back "Secret Garden" (North Side)
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| Astilbe 'Peach Blossom |
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Back "Secret Garden" (South Side)
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| A Little Garden Art! |
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Back Entry with Double Knock Out Roses
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'Caramel' Coral Bells with Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar
 | Pool Waterfall & Garden
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Pool Waterfall & Garden
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Cooking Garden-Herbs and Tomatoes
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| Driveway Border: Spirea 'Magic Carpet', Salvia 'Caradonna' and Weeping Norway Spruce |
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Front Island Bed
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| Front Lawn: Weeping Japanese Maple 'Viridis' |
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| Garden Greeters-Thank You! |
The Sayville Garden Club was founded in 1927 and is a community organization which focuses on gardening while maintaining local gardens and encouraging others to beautify their surroundings. The club promotes horticultural appreciation, creates floral designs and offers scholarships for local high school students, garden therapy programs and local clean-up efforts. Established in 1968, BAFFA (Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing music and fine arts to the community, including the BAFFA Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The organization features monthly art exhibits showcasing local artists, art groups, student art shows and workshops.
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| Thank you for Visiting! |
I hope you enjoyed This Month in the Garden and views from the Sayville Garden Tour. This event occurs every other year and is a favorite of many. Thank you to the Sayville Garden Club for wanting to include us once again. It is a privilege and an honor and we enjoyed meeting and getting to speak with and share thoughts with other like minded individuals who enjoy and appreciate gardening!
As Always...Happy Gardening!
Author: Lee @A Guide to Northeastern Gardening, © Copyright 2010-2025. All rights reserved.
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The garden looks absolutely lovely, despite or maybe because of the rain! What a great event.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Several of the guests mentioned that they rather see a garden in the rain!
DeleteWhat a well-deserved honor to be included in the Sayville Garden Club and BAFFA's partnership! Your gardens look beautiful for the occasion (any occasion!). We gardeners know overcast skies make for a more beautiful stroll, and hopefully the rain was light and only occasional. A good excuse to wear the sloggers while strolling through. 😉
ReplyDeleteIt was an honor to be included and a I get so much pleasure from being able to meet fellow gardeners and answers questions. It was a successful day!
DeleteHow wonderful that you were part of the garden tour! Your garden is certainly lovely and a good one to include. I love the pool/waterfall area and the "secret garden." Just lovely. ♡︎
ReplyDeleteThank you Beth! It was a fun day and my husband and I got to see the other five gardens the evening before and they were all wonderful!
DeleteYou know how much I always love my virtual tours through your garden. I particularly like that purple hydrangea, stunning! I’ll be moving my Nest back to Michigan soon, starting from scratch again. It will be smaller and more manageable this time, since we’re aging out of all the work here. Mostly we’ll be closer to our kids and grands, that’s the whole purpose of the move.
ReplyDeleteI found the purple hydrangea while out shopping and not even looking for it, so thank you! I could not resist the color! Wishing you success with your move and new garden.
DeleteIt was an honor to be included in the garden tour visit program, LI. Your garden was the best, clean, neat, beautiful design and landscape. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Nadezda! The garden does require some time to keep it neat, but that is my therapy!
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