This Friday, April 8th 2011 through Sunday, April 10th come and enjoy the 58th Annual Azalea Garden Tour and its “Picture Perfect Gardens.”
Enjoy Southern hospitality amid the glorious color of azaleas and other spring flowers. The Cape Fear Garden Club Azalea Garden Tour opens Friday with the colorful Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Queen’s Garden Party at Greenfield Lake. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony opening the 12-garden tour features Summerall Guards, the Citadel’s elite senior drill team, escorting 125 Azalea Belles dressed in authentic antebellum gowns. The Belles will also be in each garden on the tour. Local and national celebrities are also present to celebrate the event.
Cape Fear Garden Club members will serve refreshments and hundreds of homemade cookies. The UNCW Brass Ensemble will present musical entertainment from the gazebo at the Wheel’s center. All Wilmington Rotary Clubs have worked tirelessly beautifying the Rotary Wheel area for this event and for the community. Gardens are open 10 am to 6 pm daily.
The tour has been featured in SOUTHERN LIVING and is one of the longest running and most popular garden tours in the South.
Tickets are available beginning January 25, 2011 through the Cape Fear Garden Club’s web site at www.azaleagardentour.org and at the NC Azalea Festival Office, 5725 Oleander Drive, 910-794-4650. Tickets also will be available at Belk, local garden centers and other local businesses.
For more information, visit www.azaleagardentour.org
