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HOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
presents
SECRET GARDENS
Sponsored by Hufnagel Landscaping, Inc.
Sunday,
June 5, 2011
9 am to 4 pm
Supported by the
Hoboken Garden Club
Welcome to the 14th Annual Hoboken Secret Garden Tour, a
fundraiser supporting the Hoboken Historical Museum & Cultural
Center.
The Museum's Garden Tour Committee would like to thank Hufnagel
Landscaping Inc. for generously sponsoring this event again this year.
We'd also like to thank the Hoboken Garden Club for their support
and lending their expertise and time. None of this would be possible
without the generosity of the homeowners, who open their gardens
for this tour, as well as the numerous volunteers and dedicated
committee members, including Melissa Abernathy, Ann Bauer, Bill
Curran, Valerie D'Antonio, Bob Foster and Julie Harari.
We hope you enjoy this year's tour, which features 11 gardens
designed by a variety of talented do-it-yourselfers and professional
landscape designers. Two of the gardens on this year's tour are not so
secret, but they earned a place on the tour as bonus gardens.
A few reminders:
o No use of bathrooms in the homes, unless the tour guide
indicates that a homeowner has made facilities available.
o Strollers must be left outside the home, and children kept
under close supervision.
o Before taking photographs, please ask the homeowner's
permission.
Thank you, and enjoy the tour.
GARDEN #1
1309 GARDEN STREET
Please enter and exit through the street-level front door.
Marguerite. ..has coaxed a lush garden to flourish in her mostly
shady back yard through years of patient experimentation. When
she bought the house 155 years ago, ehe yard was paved in
concrete. When ehe lead that removed, she discovered several
large pieces o f bluestone buried under th e soiS; these formed the
basis of the patio designo A stepping-stone path leads from the
patio to the back fence through beds filled with thade-loving
hostes, ferns and other carefully chosen perennials. You'll find
hellebores, sweet Woodruff, heuchera, Solomon's Seal, bleeding
hearts, primrose and a red-Swig dogwood shrub with variegated
leaves. She often transplants plants to experiment with more
suitable locations, er show off their colo r to a better advantage.
Two herieage tose bushes and a smallsucculent garden-with a
few portulacas to reefind her of her parents' garden-are
strategically placed to soak up the sun for a few hours a day.
Vintage garden pieces, such as the blue glider, and cement bird
baths and planters, add a whimsical touch. A pair of foot-high
stone walls wrap around small elevated planting beds. And a small
container holds a water garden. Wisteria and azalea on the north
side of the patio add color in the early spring. A sunroom filled
with more delicate species-orchids, bromeliads and other
epiphytes-serves as a transition space from the garden to her
living area, and also shelters some of her outdoor plants that can't
handle a New Jersey winter.
BONUS GARDEN #2
11TH STREET ISLANDS
the sidewalk on the north side oft1th St., observe the gardens on the
dividing the street.
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2011-06-04
