Our first #SOCAL Open Day is this Sun. 5/1 in the #Pasadena area! Meet and greet with many of the garden designers, including Judy Horton at the garden of Merrill & Donivee Nash (pictured).
You can also say hi to our friends from Garden Design magazine at the lead garden, La Casita del Arroyo. Details here: https://
Photo: Marion Brenner.
Sunday, May 1
10:00 AM- 4:00 PM
Start your tour at the La Casita del Arroyo Garden on Sunday, May 1 between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., where discounted tickets and maps to all of the Pasadena area gardens will be available. Admission to La Casita del Arroyo Garden is free.
Note: In one location, the Open Days Directory lists the Pasadena Area Open Day on a Saturday. The correct day is Sunday.
Admission to each private garden is $7. Don’t forget to buy discounted admission tickets in advance. They never expire and can be used at most Open Days to make garden visiting easier.
Yariv ResidenceSun 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM • Pasadena, CA, 91105The Yariv garden is a quintessential example of the Mid-Century Modernism style. The house, designed in 1960 by the notable local architect, Bill Blurock, presents an austere façade to the street that belies the elegance of the interior and rear garden…
Oak ValeSun 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM • Pasadena, CA, 91105When my husband and I stopped at an estate sale the object of our interest became the garden! As soon as we walked in to the home it became a secondary thought, one look out of the window and the garden became first and foremost…
Lomita GardenSun 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM • Pasadena, CA, 91106This is the first time this private, estate garden has been included in the Open Days program. The house and garden are designed to take full advantage of the mild, Mediterranean climate where outdoor entertaining can be a year-round activity…
Lipsig GardenSun 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM • Pasadena, CA, 91105Our gardens surround our Thornton Ladd-designed, modernist house completed around 1950. We extensively re-landscaped the grounds around 1990 with the assistance of the late landscape architect Owen Peters of EPT Design…
Garden of Lisa & Tom EvansSun 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM • Pasadena, CA, 91105Sited on over two acres of park-like grounds, this gracious gated estate, originally designed by noted architect Louis DuPuget Millar in 1908, was thoughtfully expanded in the 1920s by Roland Coate…
Garden of Merrill & Donivee NashSun 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM • Arcadia, CA, 91006Donivee Nash grew up in Delaware surrounded by the rich culture of nineteenth-century estate gardens like Longwood, Mount Cuba, Winterthur and Nemours. She brought this garden aesthetic with her to the New England-style saltbox (as this property was in 1938) over thirty five years ago…
La Casita del Arroyo GardenSun 9:30 AM- 3:30 PM • 177 South Arroyo Boulevard. Pasadena, CA, 91105Start your Pasadena tour here on Sunday, May 1st between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Discounted tickets and maps to all of the Pasadena area gardens will be available. Otherwise hours are year round, daily, dawn to dusk.
