Unknown to most passers-by, the historic home in Sequoyah Hills at 3024 Kingston Pike also has an equally detailed classic rear and side garden.
On Saturday, the public will have the opportunity to visit Joe and Sharon J. This garden, owned by the Pricers, is part of The Garden Conservancy's Open Days initiative.
Sharon Price, CEO and founder of The Trust Company of Tennessee, said she and her husband have enjoyed their garden over the years and want to share it with the public.
"I hope they enjoy the garden and learn more about The Garden Conservancy," she said of the national nonprofit group that promotes education and inspiration while preserving and celebrating America's diverse gardens.
Price, who is on the board of The Garden Conservancy, said their home and gardens have been open to a number of nonprofit fundraising events in recent years, but this is the first time Knoxville has participated in the Open Houses initiative in a long time.
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Lane Hayes Gardens on Fort Loudoun Lake's far west Knox County will be part of this year's tour.
Price said his gardens included a rose garden next to the previous house surrounded by boxwood and lavender hedges. There are also knotty bottles, a small garden surrounded by a rosemary hedge, smooth walls and steps, and a colonnaded balcony.
"We have a beautiful rose garden up there, but when you go down to the river, it's more formal," said Price, whose grandmother first sparked her interest in flowers when Price was growing up in Atlanta to attend college. Texas was there. . “This is basically a perennial garden. We use several years old. We like to use plants that attract insects like pollinators."
As a pollinator, the house has also attracted significant people in Knoxville's history over the years. Designed by renowned Knoxville firm Baumann and Baumann, the home first moved into the home of Kuhlman Apteek owner Dan Chambliss 100 years ago.
He died in 1926 and his widow Anna lived there until 1932. According to Price, from 1932 to 1942 the house was occupied by Charles Miller Preston, president of the Hamilton National Bank of Knoxville. Lady lived from 1942 to 1962. Oscar Handley, daughter of department store salesman Joss Miller and mother of Laura "Moffett" Brooke, who was married to the late US Senator Bill Brooke.
From 1962 to 1982, real estate agent Pine Webber Potts Johnson and his wife, Sally, lived in the house. After JD Lee lived in the house from 1982 to 1984, Sharon Price said she and her late husband, Bill Miller, bought it and got a garden that included the house's original water features.
She married Joe Price in 2006, after Bill died in 1998, and in 2008 the Bryce family bought a house next door. Unfortunately, several problems that left water in the basement led to the demolition of the house.
Both were interested in roses, though more for presentation and growth patterns and petal counts, so the site became a new rose garden. It was designed by the famous gardener Ryan Janney from Georgia.
He talked about a designer who died in a 2016 house fire in Lexington, Georgia while trying to save his dogs.
Sharon Price said an article in Southern Living magazine was published after her gardening work, and that a popular regional magazine published an article on home cooking in the late 1980s. I jokingly recalled that some guests had attended the first event and were expected to continue the toast. while a few photos were taken of everyone getting ready to enjoy the meal.
The gardens have also been featured on the local PBS show "Tennessee Life" and the HGTV Garden Tour program.
Price added that it's better to take a walk in the park in the spring, but they don't want to compete with the Kizilow Arts Festival. Of course, Utah football dominates the lineup of fall events in Knoxville, but Falls History is open on Saturdays.
Officials said advance registration is required to enter the park and it will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5 for conservation organizations, $10 for general admission, and free for children 12 and under.
A link to a tour of this park and Hayes Park is available at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/open-days-schedule/knox-county-tn-open-day.
This article originally appeared on the Knoxville News Sentinel website Knoxville Homes. Kingston Pike Mansion with Fairy Gardens.
