For the week of July 16 - 22, 2003

Indian Creek gardens are featured on tour

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By DANA DUGAN
Express Staff Writer

An evening walk amongst the flowers. No, it’s not one of the wildflower walks so popular in the valley in the summers. It’s the annual Hailey Garden Tour sponsored by the Friends of the Hailey Public Library.

The vibrant garden at the Baldwin’s home in Indian Creek is featured on Saturday’s garden tour. Express photo by Dana DuGan

The tour takes place Saturday, July 11, from 4 to 8 p.m. Tickets—$15 in advance, $16 the day of event—are available in Hailey at Read All About It and the Hailey Nursery, or in Ketchum at Chapter One, Sun Valley Garden Center, and Webb Garden Center. In Bellevue they may be purchased at the Sun Valley Garden Center and Webb Nursery.

There are nine gardens on the tour this year, all in Indian Creek, off Buttercup Road. Since the sites are all in the same vicinity and in the lower Indian Creek area, they are all accessible by foot or bike.

This year several entertainment aspects have been added for an even more delightful day of gardens perusal. Live music will be played in a number of gardens, including a duet performance from the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. And the Hailey wine restaurant diVine will have a no host wine reception at the Baldwin garden, 211 Hiawatha Drive.

At the Baldwin residence, Virginia Creeper, established in 1990, trails along the front and sides of the home. Inviting guests into the perennial garden is an arbor covered in four types of hardy clematis. As one walks around the home, the colorful and bold cottage garden seemingly transforms into a native landscape with ponds and a stunning view of the mountains to the west.

Lemonade stands will be at both the McClung and Raymond gardens. The McClung garden, featuring a Moonlight Garden, is at 113 N. Hiawatha Drive and was established in 1996.

The Raymond’s 20-year-old garden is at 206 Indian Creek Road.

Other featured gardens are the four-year-old garden at the Curran home at 213 Hiawatha, which feels like a wildlife sanctuary with mallard ducks and great blue herons in the lower ponds.

The McClure home is at 301 Hiawatha; the Parmelee home is at 109 N. Hiawatha; the Steven home is at 101 East Gulch; and Michel Martel and Skip deHennis’s native garden in the xeriscape style is at 109 Shawnee Lane.

The Beriker residence at 306 Hiawatha Drive was established in 1997, and has an enclosed children's garden with a vegetable and flower patch. The home also has a 1930s Challenge windmill from Boise, which has always made the entrance to Indian Creek feel welcoming.

Signed canvas prints by garden tour brochure cover artist Ginna Parsons Lagergren are available for $45 each.

 

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