HOME & GAR D E N
James Protzman and Jane Brown’s yard was designed to attract different species of birds.
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A sneak peek at three spots featured on this year’s Chapel Hill Garden Tour By Hannah Lee P h o to g raphy by Peyton Si ckl es
ust like Canterbury bells, forget-me-nots and hollyhocks, the two-day Chapel Hill Garden Tour blooms every other year. Put on by the Chapel Hill Garden Club – a nonprofit that “educates its [more than 100] members in horticulture, floral design, landscape design and sound environmental practice” – the tour attracted some 1,500 visitors in 2018. This year’s tour on April 23 and 24 will showcase the North Carolina Botanical Garden and six private gardens, stretching from Eastwood Lake to Chatham County, which features two gardens in Governors Club for the first time ever. 98
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VAC ATI O N V I B E S Before James Protzman and Jane Brown moved into their
midcentury home on Eastwood Lake, “it was all overgrown,” Jane says. “You couldn’t even see the lake; this was all a work in progress, as most gardens are.” Now the home, centered on a 1.1acre lot, is the perfect setting for a number of outdoor gatherings, including their big annual Fourth of July party. Surrounding their house are garden beds, Japanese maples, dogwoods and crepe myrtles amid towering mature oaks and ironwoods. Interconnected between the garden beds are a
Jane and James took cues from their midcentury modern home when selecting landscaping elements, including Japanese maples and liriope.