Gardens of Oxford
Gardens of Oxford Calendar Contest
Voting
Vote for your favorite garden! The garden with the most votes wins the cover of the 2024 Gardens of Oxford calendar!
Voting is by donation 1 vote $2, 5 votes for $6, 12 votes for $10, or 25 votes for $20.
A Partnership between Oxford Community Center and Oxford Garden Club. All calendar sales benefit the organizations 50/50.
The 12 gardens with the most votes will be announced LIVE Sept. 2nd at OCC’s Community Day and have their garden featured in the 2024 Gardens of Oxford Calendar!
Calendars will start going on sale during the voting process and be available to pick up by mid November.
Garden Owner: Maggie Anderson
What makes my garden special: That it is relatively low effort and I do it all myself!
Garden Owner: Anna Aurilio
What makes my garden special: We ripped out the lawn several years ago and have been amazed at how so many plants flourish!
Garden Owner: Pat Calvin
What makes my garden special: This is our front planter box which is often visited by hummingbirds. And Tom even built the box by hand. The arrangement is based on flower displays we have seen during our travels to Charleston, SC and Paris.
Garden Owner: Russell Gray
What makes my garden special: This is a Spring garden that emphasizes all the beautiful colors and brightness that Spring brings. Multiple visitors (in-town and out of town) have told us that every year brings a different perspective and wonderment of joy. We have tried to take all the great ideas from the gardens of Oxford and combine them into a big show. As the first house in the Historic District, we hope to provide a welcoming experience to everyone as they come around the causeway.
Garden Owner: Patricia Gray
What makes my garden special: Sharing this garden with the community is a gift we look forward to over the long winter. The plants and flowers chosen for our garden reflect family favorites from over the years. Some of the plants have been grown from cuttings from my mother’s yard.
Garden Owner: Madge Henning
What makes my garden special: I love how lush and varied it is. When I wander through I can remember when and why I planted so many of the plants. My garden journal also attests to many things I planted which didn’t make it. Gardening in Oxford is not always easy, but all the hard work has also produced many joyful hours of enjoyment.
Garden Owner: Terry Holman
What makes my garden special: My biggest crop is butterflies!
Garden Owner: Robert Konopacz
What makes my garden special: My gardening friends in Oxford know me for my love and care of roses.
I think this photograph of one my hydrangeas and the Tred Avon really shows why I love to garden here!
Garden Owner: Katherine Marconi
What makes my garden special: The Oxford Library’s hydrangeas and bench welcome town readers to browse, sit, read, and admire their beauty. The bench plaque recognizes Mr. McKenny W. Anderson, who endowed many local organizations funding from his estate. We honor Mr. Anderson and the beauty that spring brings to our community.
Garden Owner: Margaret Munsch
What makes my garden special: Multilayered with favorite childhood plants
Garden Owner: Meryl Nolan
What makes my garden special: These little flowers remind me of Forget-Me-Nots. Just pleasant to see in your garden.
Garden Owner: Phyllis Rambo
What makes my garden special: Garden Retreat
Lush garden, primarily shady, with many native plants for the birds and pollinators.
Garden Owner: Patricia Reynolds
What makes my garden special: This has been a love affair for the past 30 years where we have turned a cornfield into our home and gardens !
Garden Owner: Jan Trevorrow
What makes my garden special: Native Dogwood supports 120 species of moth, butterfly and insect species. The Asia dogwood supports 6 local insect species. Birds and others will not survive without the bugs.
Garden Owner: Anne Walker
What makes my garden special: It’s special because we continue to enlarge the area decreasing grass to mow. We are promoting pollinator Heath and insect habitat.
Garden Owner: Toni Wilson
What makes my garden special: A symphony of harmonizing color, if only for a brief moment.
Garden Owner: Louisa Zendt
What makes my garden special: The colors on the pond in our back yard are always changing. From the bright red leaves, falling from the Japanese Maple that hangs over the pond in late fall, to the blue iris’ in the center of the pond in May, then turning to the magenta and yellow lily pad flowers in June.