INSIDE & OUT

Home and garden tours in bloom for spring

By Collin Kelley INtown Editor

If you’re looking for some inspiration to spruce up your home and garden, these upcoming home and garden tours around Intown are sure to help.

ASA Decorators’ Show House & Gardens

e walls of Palazzo Rosa, the 44th annual Decorators’ Show House & Gardens, are no stranger to the creative minds of the Atlanta Symphony Associates’ annual group of elite designers. Originally designed in the Italian Baroque Style by three Georgian architects —Neel Reid, Hal Hentz and Philip Shutze—the home is now considered a “green” house with an innovative geothermal heating and cooling system. e home is open to the public from April 26 until May 18 and proceeds will bene t the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are $25 if purchased before April 25, $30 a erwards or at the door. For tickets and more information, visit DecoratorsShowHouse.org.

Buckhead Garden Show

e Southeastern Horticultural Society is planning an abbreviated edition of its annual ower show at the Buckhead eatre on April 25 - 27. e Southeastern Flower Show, usually held at the Cobb Galleria, will return in 2015, but this year e Garden Show in Buckhead will focus on community gardening. Speakers will include Vince Dooley and Steve Penley along with a marketplace, photography exhibit, children’s activities, local chefs, oral designers and the announcement of a “legacy garden” at Charlie Loudermilk Park. For tickets and information, visit www.sehort.org/gardenshow.

Inman Park Tour of Homes

e 2014 Tour Of Homes is part of the annual Inman Park Festival on April 25-27. e tour will feature 11 homes and points of interest in the community. Homes featured this year include those with Victorian, Gothic, Cra sman-style bungalows, modern lo s and Inman Park United Methodist Church. Advance tickets are $15 at inmanparkfestival.org or $20 at the sales booth located at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Elizabeth Street during the festival. Tour hours are noon to 4 p.m. on Friday and noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Druid Hills Tour of Homes & Gardens

e 46th annual tour will take place May 2-4 and feature seven homes and gardens, as well as the Callanwolde Artist & Pottery Market and Lullwater Conservation Garden Plant Sale. New this year will be a series of “Bar Talks” at Emory Village including Frank Neely of Frank G. Neely Design Associates at Slice & Pint on May 2 at 4:30 p.m.; Eric King & Holly Brooks of King Landscaping at Saba on May 3 at 5:30 p.m.; and Larry Bosarge of Southern Outdoor Construction & Design at Ink & Elm, on May 4 at 4:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchase at druidhillstour.org. Proceeds from the tour and events bene t the Druid Hills neighborhood.

Central Presbyterian Church

Palm Sunday Processional April 13 9:45 a.m. Washington St. Courtyard

Palm Sunday Worship April 13 11 a.m. Sanctuary

Maundy Thursday April 17 12:15 p.m. Rand Chapel

Good Friday April 18 12:15 p.m. Rand Chapel

Easter Sunday April 20 11 a.m. Sanctuary