Villa Abbondanza

Our garden was one of the first front-yard gardens in Windsor Square. We bought our 1920s Italianate-style house in 1986 and began renovations in 1989. We replaced a weedy front lawn with a garden. We ripped out dead rose bushes to make room for a swimming pool. We built high stucco walls to enclose the new pool and created a rear courtyard with an outdoor fireplace. The olive and guava trees, along with the hardscape and the climbing roses, are all that remain from experiments with a mostly native garden in the 1980s and a garden of roses and flowering perennials in the 1990s. Today, our low-maintenance garden is filled with Aloe, Agave, assorted other succulents, and Mediterranean perennials. The ground is covered in Yosemite pebbles. The rear courtyard garden is full of potted trees and shrubs with colorful foliage. There is a wall of vintage plant hangers filled with succulents. Blue-flowering Petrea volubilis covers the walls. The new courtyard and the original loggia are paved in concrete tiles with slate accents.

Directions: At the request of the Garden Host, directions to this garden are provided at additional gardens open on this date, or by calling the Garden Conservancy office toll-free weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, 1-888-842-2442.

Open Days 2018: May 6
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission to this garden is $7 for members and nonmembers without tickets purchased in advance.

Buy discounted admission tickets in advance! They can be used at most Open Days to make garden visiting easier.
Nonmembers get 6 visits for the price of 5 with advanced ticket book purchase.
Members get 50% off ONLY by purchasing ticket books in advance.