Put on your comfy shoes and mark March 7, 8 and 9 on your calendar to visit spectacular homes and gardens. Sallie Mansell and Sally Matthews announced the Azalea Trail theme as A Houston Tradition … Come Discover Your Roots. The tour (11 a.m. to 5 p. m.) through four River Oaks and Tanglewood homes and gardens also includes River Oaks Garden Club Forum of Civics, Bayou Bend Gardens and Rienzi. A ticket is $20 for all, or individual-site tickets are $5. Cathy Fitzpatrick Cleary and Gayle Hightower, spokeswomen for the River Oaks Garden Club, invite you to go online for your tickets at riveroaksgardenclub.org or call 713-523-2483.
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Sallie Mansell and Sally Matthews (from left) are River Oaks Garden Club co-chairs of this year’s Azalea Trail, the 79th version of the popular annual tour.
Although Sharon Brier grew up in the Rio Grande Valley she left as soon as she could and found herself immersed in all that Houston has to offer.
Sallie Mansell and Sally Matthews (from left) are River Oaks Garden Club co-chairs of this year’s Azalea Trail, the 79th version of the popular annual tour.