Jane Maloy says it’s always so hot in the summer, the garden house, found near the kumquat, tangerine and lime tree grove, provides a cool respite. This year’s garden tour meanders through Wilmington’s historic neighborhoods — from Brookwood to Forest Hills, Country Club Pines and Glen Meade — and mid-town to Greenville and Masonboro Sounds. All of the exquisitely groomed grounds have earned the club’s green thumb stamp of approval and none more so than the No. 1 garden on the self-guided tour, Melissa Corbett’s. Corbett’s delightful garden house has evolved from the country tin barn she used for years. In its place is an enchanting tiny house she modeled after her mother’s garden house at her childhood home on Country Club Road. “Mine had to be tiny because my yard’s so small,” Corbett says, yet her landscape is brimming with stone walks, flowering trees, water features and ornamental plants and pots. Top: salvaged glazed doors were pirated from Chuck’s on US Highway 17. Right: citrus trees flank one entry into the Maloy garden house on Mimosa Place. 14 WBM april 2014
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