Denman Island’s Home & Garden Tour occurs every two years, and is a much-anticipated highlight of the Spring season in the Gulf Islands.
19th Home & Garden Tour Dates
Saturday & Sunday
May 7th & 8th, 2011
Renowned for its many unique and unusual homes as well as its many truly spectacular gardens, Denman abounds in amazing architecture, beautiful flower and bountiful vegetable gardens.
Visitors are catered to in every way. Meals are available in Denman Village when you need a break between viewing properties on either side of the midway point. Tickets are available in advance from many outlets on Vancouver Island from Nanaimo to Campbell River. Should you wish to purchase them on Denman, the Community Centre will offer ticket sales as well as maps and further details on featured homes.
As a fundraiser for the non-profit organization, the Denman Conservancy Association, all proceeds from this fascinating tour go towards preserving unique, environmentally sensitive and historically important parcels of land on the island.
Who’s On This Year’s Tour?
Perennial Favourites….
- Jimmy Tait’s gracious home & fragrant, floral garden, ablaze with over 1000 daffodils & splendid rhodos & azaleas.
- Bruce Holden & Leandra Jacobs productive working fruit & nut farm.
- Tobey & Mikell Callahan’s beautifully restored 1920′s cottage in its gorgeous grounds.
- John Tallerino & Marc Jacobs enchantingly renovated home, exquisitely painted artists’ studio, magical shrines & perennial garden.
- Susan-Marie & Yoshi Yoshihara’s elegant, comfortable home with Japanese design elements & aesthetically gorgeous stonework, set in a serene clearing amidst a mature second-growth forest.
& New This Year….
- Carol & John Ralston’s garden dominated by a venerable old maple that is both a blessing & a curse!
- The Hermitage’s lovely pastoral grounds & unique architectural components - a yurt, a dome & spheres in the trees – co-exist with the Denman Island community SPUDS project.
- Dawn Stofer’s property is all about art. The spacious, light-filled house functions as both home & gallery; a delight to see along with the studio & beekeeper’s garden, all with magnificent ocean view.
- Jayne-Anne O’Reilly’s charming garden beyond the wooden gate marries a well-tended garden of many seasons with the adjacent tranquil Morrison Marsh, home to a variety of flora & fauna.
- Tracey Horovaten & Shayne Barker’s gorgeous farmhouse is truly unique; hand-built by a master woodworker & the imaginative creator of multi-dimensional, fanciful collages/murals.
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