By Mark Schmerling

Members of the public are invited to tour some of the area’s finest homes, on the Green Blades Garden Club of Tryon’s Decorator Showcase Tour of Homes on Saturday, April 25 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. This will be the club’s 43^rd year of presenting the tour of homes.

 

According to Green Blades representatives, “Tryon and the surrounding area of Landrum, Campobello and Columbus have always been a place of enchantment, charm and culture, and this year we are going to bring to you not only wonderful homes but the talent of decorators that helped to make these five homes, each different in style, tantalizing for the eyes.”

 

Those five homes are “Fox Trail” in Red Fox, “Hillside” in

Jackson Grove, “Henderson’s of Picnic Hill,” “Meadow Brook

Farm” and “Free Hold Farm.”

 

This will be a self-guided driving tour. Participants may visit any home on tour as they wish.  Each home is themed. For instance, Meadow Brook Farm will follow the theme of “hunt breakfast.”

 

Different this year, the tour showcase the talents of this area’s finest decorators.

 

Barnes Inn displays antique furniture from outstanding makers in China, Argentina and other distant lands. Much of it was brought to its present site from a former home in West Virginia. The home also incorporates exquisitely-crafted doors and other woodwork. Antique riding artifacts are also on display.

 

Barnes Inn and the rest of Meadow Brook Farm are part of Greenspace of Fairview, a 1,331-acre conservation easement, with 778 acres of dedicated open space.

 

Tickets, $20 each, will be available at the following area stores: Vines & Stuff and Down to Earth Garden Center in Tryon; Openroad Coffee and Tea and the Flower Cottage in Columbus; P.J.’s Fashions, Sissy’s, and Expressions Florist, all of Landrum; and the Wrinkled Egg in Flat Rock. Tickets will also be available the day of the tour, at a location just off Interstate 26 Exit 1 at Landrum.

 

Proceeds from the tour will be used for Garden Club beautification projects and organizations the club supports including Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, The Tryon Fine Arts Center decorations, The Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry and Steps to Hope Adopt A Family project and our Park on Trade in Tryon.

 

Please note that these are all private homes without access for the handicapped. For further information call 828-894-2296, or e-mail decoratorshowcasetour@gmail.com.