Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 13, 1992 TAG: 9203130384
SECTION: LAWN & GARDEN PAGE: LG-19 EDITION: METRO
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The tour runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will include the homes of R.C. Johnson, A. Boxley Jr., S.F. Fulton, W.M. Dixon Jr. and W.T. Robey III.
Each home features garden spots, and additional rooms will be open in three of the homes.
The Johnson home, a Tudor style in culled brick at 3617 Penarth Road, features a circular driveway of hand-laid stone. Many original plants from 1926 remain, including boxwoods, dogwoods and azaleas.
The Boxley's house is a white-brick modified Colonial constructed around 1940. Recently renovated, its spacious deck at the back overlooks a terraced garden loaded with spring bulbs and azaleas. It is located at 3538 Penarth Road.
The Fulton home at 3105 Somerset Street was built in 1937 and is a modified Cape Cod-Colonial Revival home designed by Roanoke architects. An octagonal pavilion was added in 1990 and is done in Appalachian poplar paneling and bookshelves.
A winding drive through the woods leads to the Dixon home, a contemporary house highlighted by a Japanese roofline at 2831 Wilton Road. Built in 1963, it sits on a completely wooded lot with terraced gardens of wildflowers, daffodils, dogwoods, rhododendron and azaleas.
The Robey house, at 2629 Avenham Ave., has a garden planned by Williamsburg landscape architect Stanley Abbott. A willow oak tree shades the boxwood garden and brick patio in the backyard, and daffodils, tulips and azaleas bloom in the spring.
A bus tour costing $17 will leave from and return to the Roanoke Garden Center on Avenham Avenue Southwest. Tour times are 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and reservations are required.
Tickets also are available for those who don't wish to ride the tour bus. They cost $10 or $3 per house.
For more information, call the Roanoke Council of Garden Clubs at 343-4519.
by CNB