Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

How Does Your Garden Grow?

French impressionist extraordinaire Claude Monet took to his easel at the sight of water lilies and garden paths. This week, Vermont artists draw from similar en-plein-air inspirations at the annual Art in the Garden Tour. For this Vermont Festival of the Arts activity, art enthusiasts climb aboard a yellow school bus with tour director Joan Gilbert to visit the Mad River Valley’s most picturesque gardens. The destinations, ranging from private homes to the von Trapp Greenhouse and Mountain Flower Farm, boast lush flora and vegetable growth. Local painters — including Carlyn Hass, Joyce Kahn, Dotty Kyle and Candy Barr — are stationed at each stop, capturing the view. It’s “a perfect marriage between visual arts and the art of living,” says event coordinator Beverly Kehoe. Feeling artsy? Catch this bus before it leaves the station.