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Notes: Selected uncorrected text HOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM presents SECRET GARDENS Sponsored by Hufnagel Landscaping, Inc. Sunday, June 5, 2011 9 am to 4 pm Supported by the Hoboken Garden Club Welcome to the 14th Annual Hoboken Secret Garden Tour, a fundraiser supporting the Hoboken Historical Museum & Cultural Center. The Museum's Garden Tour Committee would like to thank Hufnagel Landscaping Inc. for generously sponsoring this event again this year. We'd also like to thank the Hoboken Garden Club for their support and lending their expertise and time. None of this would be possible without the generosity of the homeowners, who open their gardens for this tour, as well as the numerous volunteers and dedicated committee members, including Melissa Abernathy, Ann Bauer, Bill Curran, Valerie D'Antonio, Bob Foster and Julie Harari. We hope you enjoy this year's tour, which features 11 gardens designed by a variety of talented do-it-yourselfers and professional landscape designers. Two of the gardens on this year's tour are not so secret, but they earned a place on the tour as bonus gardens. A few reminders: o No use of bathrooms in the homes, unless the tour guide indicates that a homeowner has made facilities available. o Strollers must be left outside the home, and children kept under close supervision. o Before taking photographs, please ask the homeowner's permission. Thank you, and enjoy the tour. GARDEN #1 1309 GARDEN STREET Please enter and exit through the street-level front door. Marguerite. ..has coaxed a lush garden to flourish in her mostly shady back yard through years of patient experimentation. When she bought the house 155 years ago, ehe yard was paved in concrete. When ehe lead that removed, she discovered several large pieces o f bluestone buried under th e soiS; these formed the basis of the patio designo A stepping-stone path leads from the patio to the back fence through beds filled with thade-loving hostes, ferns and other carefully chosen perennials. You'll find hellebores, sweet Woodruff, heuchera, Solomon's Seal, bleeding hearts, primrose and a red-Swig dogwood shrub with variegated leaves. She often transplants plants to experiment with more suitable locations, er show off their colo r to a better advantage. Two herieage tose bushes and a smallsucculent garden-with a few portulacas to reefind her of her parents' garden-are strategically placed to soak up the sun for a few hours a day. Vintage garden pieces, such as the blue glider, and cement bird baths and planters, add a whimsical touch. A pair of foot-high stone walls wrap around small elevated planting beds. And a small container holds a water garden. Wisteria and azalea on the north side of the patio add color in the early spring. A sunroom filled with more delicate species-orchids, bromeliads and other epiphytes-serves as a transition space from the garden to her living area, and also shelters some of her outdoor plants that can't handle a New Jersey winter. BONUS GARDEN #2 11TH STREET ISLANDS the sidewalk on the north side oft1th St., observe the gardens on the dividing the street. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2011-06-04