Gardens, Old Houses to Be Featured on Tour
A walking tour of the homes, gardens and antiques of Old Town Tustin, the city’s historic district, will begin at 10 a.m. today.
The open houses will include a Victorian with gardens built in 1881, a redwood cabin built in 1913 by Tustin’s second mayor, a house built in 1914 by the Tustin Presbyterian Church, and a two-story Italianate Victorian and gardens built in 1883.
Other highlights will include the Old Town Family Garden, a mini-farm and the Tustin Presbyterian Church, built in 1929.
The event, called the Old Town Tustin Promenade, will include a lecture series, antique sale, plant sale and noon concert by the Tustin City Band.
The lectures begin at 9 a.m. with Clair Martin of the Huntington Library speaking on “New English Roses for Southern California Gardens.” Tim Lindsay of the Los Angeles Arboretum will speak at 10:30 on “Planning and Planting a Cottage Garden.”
At 1 p.m., quilt appraisers and historians Sandra White and Diane Ferguson will discuss the care and preservation of antique quilts.
Home tour tickets are $12 and lecture tickets are $2.50 each, available at the Tustin Area Historical Museum, 395 El Camino Real.
Information: (714) 731-5701.
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