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this year celebrates the 85th
anniversary of Roanoke's historic garden
week tour and to mark the occasion three
spectacular homes and three gardens will
be open to the public
joining me to talk about the tour and
this year's theme is Joyce Jagger and
Cindy Fletcher welcome ladies great to
have you I love these home tours so much
because the homes are always so pretty
and the gardens I don't know how you
guys do it if people are not familiar
tell them about the historic garden well
I'd say it's like welcome spring yes and
we have you know 250 homes in the state
of Virginia on tour ok and this is the
whole state white starts it's an
eight-day tour starts in Northern
Virginia and it comes down our way and
we are the last people on the tour
Roanoke Virginia needs but within all of
that we think that we have 2300 flower
arrangements so my beautiful
arrangements and other world and I will
tell you yeah right here in Roanoke we
have they are gorgeous yeah we are known
for that you really are I mean yeah
anywhere in the state people say oh you
have beautiful flowers yeah this year we
have three beautiful homes built in
1930s okay and also we've added three
gardens this year and they're all Don
landscape planned and planted by
gentlemen oh really
all of them Wow so I'm so excited yes
yeah so talk a little bit about the
homes first where are we gonna start and
where are they located they're all in
South Roanoke okay
it is a walking tour or a driving tour
you can pull right up to each okay so if
I wanted to walk I could mmm you could
uh-huh but it might be easier if you
park okay in a driving part
okay but we have lots of arrows and lots
of direction
okay and they're not far apart really
yeah okay okay
but our theme this year was hikes yeah
hops Homes and Gardens okay we pulled it
all together with all of South Warner
with our breweries with our Greenway and
everything that we have going on that's
our I'm gonna pass the buck over here to
my friend Cindy okay she's going to tell
us about some of the things we've added
okay all right Cindy what did you add we
are so excited this year to offer food
trucks and some little shopping
opportunities we have a mobile unit
coming from the south part of the state
who is bringing clothing and accessories
and we have someone coming from West
Virginia who has children's clothes
and we're just thrilled to have this
opportunity to introduce some new
shopping ideas and that's so cool drugs
okay you have the food trucks and then
there's hops in there I mean I'm
assuming they're gonna be any we are
inviting people to go down to Starr Hill
okay and which is within walking
distance of Palooza in the park perfect
perfect
that sounds like perfect day yeah
perfect day yeah so when is it and how
do I get tickets and that kind of thing
it's Saturday this Saturday from 10:00
to 5:00 you can go to the Ronald
McDonald House is kind of our
headquarters okay buy a ticket that day
there if you'd like to and then they can
kind of guide you to where you need
absolutely we have a map ladies thank
you so much
it sounds thank you okay I bet you