Inspired Garden Artistry

25 YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY

Inspired Garden Artistry, IGA, began in 2000 when an impactful group of neighbors, sharing a love for gardening, decided that the View Park-Windsor Hills community deserved a Garden Tour. The inaugural Spring Garden Tour took place on the first Sunday in May of 2001 and showcased nine diverse garden landscapes. These private gardens highlighted backyard entertainment, different landscape designs and an array of colorful plant life thriving in the hills overlooking Los Angeles. This premiere event was affectionately named Blooms With A View by the Los Angeles Times.


Thousands of garden tour visitors have enjoyed the biennial garden tour for more than 20 years making the Blooms with a View Garden Tour the community's longest running event. The garden tour has quickly become a community treasure and now extends its reach to embrace private gardens in the areas of View Park, Windsor Hills, View Heights, Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills. Funds raised from the Garden Tour continue to pay it forward and enhance the community with donations to local non-profits and community beautification projects.


We offer a free Garden & Community Resource expo in conjunction with the garden tour. Here, garden enthusiasts can meet local garden vendors and artisans while indulging in family friendly activities.


MEET THE BOARD


Van Bell - Garden Coordinator

Kathy Brinn - Technical & Volunteer Coordinator

Norman Edwards - Finance Coordinator

Lorinee Jackson - Garden & Community Coordinator

Opal Lyseight - Project Coordinator

Beverly Newton - Garden Coordinator

Felicia Smith - Communications & Marketing Coordinator

Mi Chelle Sorey - Publications Coordinator


Mission Statement

Inspired Garden Artistry promotes community connectivity and pride, inspires creativity and beautification, showcases diversity, provides learning experiences and builds and maintains partnerships. We engage people to experience creative landscapes and transfer our love of nature to help unify our neighborhoods and collective communities.

 

We do this by teaching the art of gardening, providing community enhancing activities and supporting information to encourage conservation efforts, smart gardening, urban farming and beautification.