By Eric Stock
BLOOMINGTON – Tickets go on sale Friday for the David Davis Mansion’s largest annual fundraiser, the Glorious Gardens Festival garden walk.
“The funds we raise help support the continued maintenance on Sarah’s garden and it also helps support all the educational program the mansion does for the school kids during the year,” organizer Donna Dickson said.
Dickson told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin, Sarah’s garden at the mansion is one of 11 Bloomington-Normal gardens that will be on display during the walk, which will be held June 19-20.
Dickson said Sarah’s garden still has 16 original plants that judge Davis’ wife Sarah first planted in the 1870s.
The theme for the 19th annual festival is ‘Hidden treasures, gems in the garden.’
“Our gardeners, they work hard getting ready for this,” Dickson said. “Several of them have a variety of different things throughout their garden. They have statues, artwork – another one has glass globes that are beautiful.”
Tickets can be purchased at the mansion at 1000 Monroe Dr., Bloomington; Casey’s Garden Shop, 1505 N. Main St, Bloomington; Wendell Niepagen Greenhouses and Garden Center, 2010 Fox Creek Rd, Bloomington; The Garlic Press, 108 W. North St, Normal and both Bloomington-Normal Schnuks’ locations.
Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].
