March Garden Tour
When: Saturday March 10, 2012
Time: 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.
Where: 6312 Ravenwood Way, Sarasota, FL 34243
Who: The Garden and Yard of Sidney and Lucey Finkelstein
Sid and Lucey Finkelstein have graciously offered their garden
for viewing for the enjoyment of VAOS members. The
following is how their VAOS friends, Richard and Sybil
Levien Bushell, have described the garden:
“We think they have a beautiful garden with orchids in
trees and in the ground. In the front yard they have bletillas,
spathoglottis, epidendrum, and other ground orchids.
All are now in full bloom and it is truly a vision in loveliness.
In trees there are cattleyas, dendrobiums, cymbidiums,
phals and paphs, many of which seem to be in bloom
whenever we visit. Sid has set up an ingenious watering
system, using water from the canal, which his plants seem
to love.“
Directions:
[Read to end before beginning travel!]
Take I-75 to exit 213 (University Parkway)
Turn west onto University Pkwy for 1.9 mi
Turn left (south) onto Longwood Run Blvd.
Continue straight onto Del Sol Blvd S
Continue onto Desoto Rd
[Note: Longwood Run Blvd. becomes Del Sol Blvd. S.
which becomes Desoto Road]
Turn right onto Ravenwood Drive for 0.7 mi
Turn right onto Ravenwood Way
#6312 will be straight ahead on the cul de sac.
[Note: This is one of those neighborhoods with confusing
street names of Ravenwood Drive, Ravenwood