People will get the chance to see the various styles of homes featured in Tucker Hill during a parade of homes that will begin this Saturday and last through June 8, and will feature skydiving demonstrations and musical performances.

Located north of US 380 between Custer Road and Lake Forest Drive in the Prosper ISD, Tucker Hill is a master planned community located at 7270 West University Drive, where there are currently about 30 newly built homes that are for sale.

Tucker Hill will ultimately have 2,200 homes when it is completely built out. Eight home styles will be featured in the parade of homes, which will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays with the exception of Memorial Day. The parade of homes will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. an assortment of events will be featured each Saturday and Sunday.

This weekend's Courtyard Garden Tour at Westhaven is really about gardening in relatively small spaces and in containers. And Barbara Wise, Westhaven's head gardener, is happy to share ideas that anyone can use.

Plants you can ignore: If you want plants that are very drought-tolerant and also low-maintenance sun lovers, she says to consider Agave, a thick succulent that provides color and texture if not flowers, as well as sedums, which come in different colors and make great ground covers.

Courtyard Garden Tour details
The Courtyard Garden Tour will be held from
10 a.m.-2 p.m. today,
10 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Westhaven Residents' Club, 401 Cheltenham Ave., in the development, which is just west of Franklin off Highway 96.
Proceeds benefit WAVES, a nonprofit agency that provides support and services to adults and children with developmental disabilities in Williamson County.

Ford Custom Classic Homes, one of Southern Land Company’s premier builders, was named the 2008 “Favorite Home Builder” by the readers of Nashville House & Home & Garden magazine.

Tucker Hill, a Southern Land Company community, will host the 2008 Parade of Homes™ beginning May 17, 2008 and continuing through June 8, 2008. Tucker Hill is a traditional neighborhood now under development on Highway 380 in McKinney.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of North Texas – an organization that helps children with life-threatening medical conditions experience their greatest wish – and HomeAid/Home Builders Care – a non-profit created by the Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas dedicated to fighting homelessness – are again the charitable beneficiaries of this year’s Parade.

For 46 years, children with life-threatening illnesses have arrived at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, hoping for a cure. The hospital does its work quietly, day in and day out, not only finding new ways to treat diseases, such as leukemia, but also finding new methods to fund the treatments that insurance won't cover.

One of the most popular fundraisers for the hospital takes place this year in the Westhaven community of Franklin, where a $700,000 home will be raffled with virtually all proceeds going to fund lifesaving research at St. Jude.

Take a tour of seven private gardens in the Westhaven neighborhood Friday through May 18 with the third annual Courtyard Garden Tour.

And while you're in the neighborhood, stop in this year's St. Jude Dream Home, where tours open to the public that weekend as well.

Southern Land Company hosted an open house at the Windstone Sales Center Sunday, April 13. The event was the first opportunity for visitors to tour several homes in the new community. Guests were treated to entertainment by singer/songwriter Jackie Wilson as well as a container gardening demonstration by Southern Land Company’s famous “flower ladies.”

Westhaven Town Center continues to expand as two new businesses: The Spectacle Shoppe and Townsend Academy, commit to the quaint and growing commercial village in the heart of one of Williamson county’s most successful communities; Westhaven.

A City partnership with Southern Land Company, Cherokee Investment Partners and Newland Communities resulted in two Houston Business Journal (HBJ) Landmark awards. 

The Imperial Sugar Refinery Site project won an award in the category of “2008 Land Deal,” with judges citing the numerous partners in the deal and resolution of multiple challenges through cooperation among public and private entities.