{"id":3857,"date":"2016-05-22T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2016-05-22T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:26:36","slug":"westport-historical-societys-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/westport-historical-societys-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Westport Historical Society\u2019s 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2016\/05\/61.jpg\" alt=\"6\" width=\"227\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please join us on Sunday, June 12th from 11 am to 4 pm when Westport Historical Society presents its 25th Anniversary Hidden Garden Tour.<\/p>\n<p>You will have a very special opportunity to experience six spectacular, not-to-be missed gardens in Westport, Greenfield Hill, and Southport.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden Party on Friday, June 10th is the kick-off to the celebratory weekend and will take place at the Westport Woman\u2019s Club on Imperial Avenue from 6pm to 9pm.\u00a0 The WHS Garden Party is a harbinger of Spring that brings together Westport\u2019s most fabulous for an evening in celebration of history both past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the gardens were favorites of past Tours in the 2000s, and are being showcased again by popular demand to see how they have evolved. Exceptional sights to see will be: a unique historic property featuring an axial border planting of perennials and herbaceous plants, a rose garden of four distinct color sections, an apple orchard, and a squatter\u2019s garden where friends are encouraged to grow vegetables; a walled rose garden with a surviving American Elm overlooking Southport Harbor; a garden with three rock outcroppings, woodland garden and pathwa\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $60 in advance, $70 day of Tour.<br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"Buy Tickets now!\" href=\"http:\/\/westporthistory.org\/tickets\/hgt-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Tickets now !<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All proceeds benefit the educational and cultural programs of WHS.Garden Tour tickets and directions will be available for pick-up at Westport Historical Society on Tour Day starting at 10am.<\/p>\n<p>Date :<br \/>\nSunday <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>June 12<\/strong><\/span>, 2016 from <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">11 am to 4 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Location event :<br \/>\nWestport Historical Society 25 Avery Place Across from Town Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Please join us on Sunday, June 12th from 11 am to 4 pm when Westport Historical Society presents its 25th Anniversary Hidden Garden Tour. You will have a very special opportunity to experience six spectacular, not-to-be missed gardens in Westport, Greenfield Hill, and Southport. The Garden Party on Friday, June 10th is the kick-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,70],"tags":[1729,1730,1746,1749,1752],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-westport-on","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-westport-historical-society","tag-westport-historical-societys-25th-anniversary-hidden-garden-tour","tag-westport-on-events","tag-westport-ontario","tag-westport-ontario-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}