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Historical September–October 2008 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The 10th annual breakfast garden tour for 2008 was linked to the celebration of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Centennial.
This year the tour visited backyards on the 6000 and 6100 blocks of McPherson.
The first four backyards were connected with low fences and easy access so each yard flows into the next.
The Tiedes, Boxdorfers, Hudspeths and Crosses have all worked on each other’s yards to create this shared space. Rachel (Bender) Boxdorfer, Dan Hudspeth and Andy Cross are all second-generation S k i n k e r – D e B a l i v i e r e residents (actually, Dan is a third-generation). Just a couple of years apart in age, they played together as children, attended St. Roch, lived nearby each other, and now their children are also the same age and they play together and attend school together. Other backyards included Laura Gorman’s woodland ambience experience, with many textures and shades of green viewed from an open deck. Rheba Symeonoglu’s knowledge of plants and her delicate touch make her yard a botanical garden: “it is a habitat for birds, butterflies and various insects, all interacting with one another.” Jim Parrot and Fran Schmoker’s deep green shade garden is rich with fruits and bamboo. Ingrid Murphy and Ron Slater’s collections of trellises, planters, and clever architecture are filled with things to discover. Dick and Beylinda Hereford’s progressive shade to sun border garden s designed to attract butterflies and hummingbirds. At each backyard, tourgoers received a puzzle piece and a picture on one side and a letter, along with a fact about how the streets of Skinker-DeBaliviere got its name.
When participants collected all the pieces, the letters of the puzzle spelled “Centennial”, and the puzzle picture on the other side formed the image of the Statue of St. Louis.
The cooperation and open sharing of our neighbors is one of Skinker-DeBaliviere’s greatest strengths, and it is a pleasure to experience this each year on the Breakfast Garden Tour.
Original photograph caption
Jim Parrot and Fran Schmoker.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2008.
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Original source: SD_Times2008_09.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.
