Walk in Woods Cove

The Laguna Beach Garden Club is planning its first-ever walking tour

that includes entry into seven private gardens in the historic Woods

Cove neighborhood.

The tour takes place May 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This is the first year the Garden Club has tried a walking tour.

Tour participants will take a trolley to a little-known street beside

Bluebird Canyon to start. The route covers just more than half a mile

of mostly level or downhill, paved city streets.

“We are excited by the garden selections,” said Patricia Weier,

co-chair with Gayle Whitaker of this year’s tour. “We have some

surprises for tour-goers.”

Woods Cove was selected because it includes a rich concentration

of older homes nestled in gently rolling terrain, which gives one a

sense of earlier days in Laguna.

The route meanders from a hobbit-like home to the sea, past

well-tended gardens of beach cottages, old and new.

Ticket holders will be welcomed into gardens with eclectic styles,

from a lush jungle to an austere desert, from a joyous riot of color

to a serene, park-like pocket of old Laguna.

Admittance is by advance ticket sales only. Tickets are $25, which

includes entry to gardens, a brochure with map, a trolley ride to the

start and pick-up at the end of the tour, refreshments in the park

and one opportunity to win a prize in a drawing.

Tour tickets can be purchased at Laguna Drug, 239 Broadway (free

parking lot on Ocean Ave.), www.lagunabeachgarden club.org, or by

calling (949) 836-8143.