A railway adds interest to this garden on Donata Drive in Monfort Heights | ZOOM |

        Garden tours are planned the next few weeks in Monfort Heights, Lebanon and Fort Wright.

        • The Monfort Heights/White Oak Community Association's Summer Garden Tour will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. next Saturday. The seven gardens and the main features of each:

        — 3177 Mary Jane Lane, daylilies and hostas.

        — 3124 Kleeman Road, pond with waterfall and site of plant sale.

        — 5387 Haft Road, terraced yard and in-ground pool.

        — 6398 Oakcreek Drive, woodland gardens and pond with waterfall.

        — 3660 Donata Drive, miniature evergreens in raised beds and wisteria-laced arbors.

        — 3671 Donata Drive, garden railway display and Southwest garden.

        — 8184 Lake Valley Drive, rose-draped arbors and rock-edged raised flower beds.

        Tickets, $7, will be available at each garden. Information: 662-0541. Proceeds will benefit community beautification projects.

An arbor adds shade to this Monfort Heights garden. | ZOOM |

        • Six gardens will be open for the 11th annual Lebanon Garden Tour 11 a.m.-5 p.m. next Saturday and June 24, sponsored by the Lebanon Council of Garden Clubs.

        Highlights of the self-guided tour will include Old Dominion Farm, featuring a Colonial Williamsburg-style well house and plants from root stock from Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello. At a contemporary-style garden, hostas and grasses cascade over tiers of rock beds. Interesting statuary, including a pair of bronze horses “grazing” in a 35-acre field, will be seen at Pines Pet Cemetery.

        Beyond the courtyard gardens of another garden is an arboretum with more than 150 species of trees. A stone walkway is lined with several thyme varieties at a new garden that has a Victorian gazebo and two koi ponds.

        Tickets, $5 (children under 12 free) will be available tour days at the Lebanon Station, 198 S. Broadway (one block south of the Golden Lamb Inn). Information: (513) 932-3430. Tour proceeds will help maintain the public gardens at the Lebanon Station.

        • Five gardens will be on the Fort Wright Garden Tour 1-4 p.m. July 1, sponsored by Dirty Hands, the Fort Wright Garden Club.

        Tickets, $8, will be available at two of the gardens: “Blesthaven,” 1808 Mount Vernon Drive, and “My Little Paradise,” 508 Bunker Court.

        Information: (859) 331-7087. Proceeds will benefit the Fort Wright Nature Center.

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