Bradford was the location of the Warren Garden Club's July meeting. Gardeners traveled to Bradford to view two magnificent private gardens and to enjoy lunch at the Option House Restaurant.

The first garden visited belongs to Dan and Sandra O'Brien on Forman Street. It is like a secret garden filled with flowers of varying sizes and vibrant colors and hidden behind a tall wooden fence. Along the back wall is a waterfall sliding down rocks into a pond filled with fish and water lilies. Music playing softly adds to the relaxing, breathtaking atmosphere.

Lunch was enjoyed at Bradford's Historic Option House on Main Street. It was built in 1901 and was the meeting place of oil speculators who negotiated oil "option" contracts. As many as five million barrels daily were dealt with in those early days. Recently the restaurant had become extremely run down and was slated for demolition. In 2008 Sam Sylvester purchased the building and in 13 months with local labor restored the restaurant, lounge and hotel. On the first floor is the lounge with a 62 foot Brunswick bar and dumb waiter which carries drinks to the second floor's elegant formal dining room call Peacock Parlors. The building also houses twenty remodeled hotel rooms.

After lunch club members visited the garden of Thomas and Sandra Wilson on Oakwood Avenue. This fenced garden utilizes terraces of varying heights and has a spring fed swimming pool. Trees and shrubs provide much of the beauty, structure and color in shades of green in this amazing garden. The colors of red, purple and orange in the form of lilies, clematis and dahlias dance amidst the green.

The last stop was the First Presbyterian Church to visit the Betty Jane Monjar Memorial Garden. Warren resident Molly Monjar Loughlin was there to greet the visitors to her mother's memorial.