The public is invited to experience three spectacular private gardens this Friday and Saturday at the Dogwood Arts Summer Featured Gardens event.
These gardens require walking on uneven paths and are not handicap accessible; comfortable or hiking shoes are recommended. Since these are private residences, there is limited on-site parking; guests will be admitted on a first-come-first-served basis.
● Set on a hilltop overlooking the Great Smoky Mountains, Anderson Estate is a plant collectors garden.
This young, but ever-expanding garden, features an extensive hosta collection with over 500 varieties
and also includes a wide assortment of azaleas, camellias, rhododendrons, conifers, and a native plant
display garden. The kitchen garden with 11 raised vegetable beds, fruit trees, and berries is home to an
apiary. The property also includes a cemetery from the 1800’s, an Enchanted Forest, and a
professionally landscaped frog haven with a bubbling brook and waterfall.
Anderson Estate: Owners Fred & Sandra Anderson
Free parking & shuttle to the garden from Sevier Heights Baptist Church (3140 Maloney Rd, Knoxville, TN 37920)
● Savage Garden was inspired by Arthur Savage’s visit to his native England. Upon his return, he began
building stone walls, ponds, arbors, and multiple follies. After many years of extensive restoration,
including rebuilding stone walls and borders, constructing faithful copies of the original arbors and
gates, and planting thousands of trees, shrubs, and perennials, Savage Garden is once again the kind of
magical place envisioned by Arthur Savage. Early Summer highlights hundreds of blooming hydrangeas,
native azaleas, and countless perennials. Savage Garden is listed on the National Registry of Historic
Places.
Savage Garden: Owners Bill Dohm & Patty Cooper
3237 Garden Drive, Knoxville, TN 37918
● Affectionately named by her husband Michael, Mary’s Garden began in 1993 and was set on a level site
surrounding their home which included many native dogwoods. Over the years, the garden has grown to
include many roses and perennials in the sunny front and side yards. A variety of hydrangeas and
woodland plants fill the back gardens. Lilies and roses abound in the summer garden. The hydrangea collection includes both big-leaf (Hydrangea macrophylla, mopheads and lacecaps) and smooth hydrangeas (Hydrangea arborescens) such as ‘Annabelle’. There are several Panicle hydrangeas (Hydrangea paniculata) which include older varieties such as ‘PeeGee’ and Tardiva along with newer varieties like ‘Limelight’, ‘Quickfire’, ‘Firelight’ and the new compact hydrangea, ‘Bobo’. The explosion of blooms at peak season is glorious!
Mary’s Garden: Owners Michael & Mary Bates
513 Altamira Drive, Knoxville, TN 37934
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