Garden Tour Season is Here! After a year or two pause for most garden tours, more are returning to the calendar for 2022. Here are the ones who have notified us as of our deadline, providing plenty of opportunities to check out the area’s most interesting gardens and gather some tips to implement in your own landscape! Ste. Genevieve Master Gardeners Garden Walk May 14th-15th 10am-4pm both days. Ste. Genevieve Master Gardeners’ annual Garden Walk is held in the downtown historic district of America’s oldest French Colonial village. This is a unique opportunity to tour private and public gardens. Several gardens are part of historic homes in Ste. Genevieve and are typical of the 18th century time period. The Master Gardeners’ plant sale begins at 9am and extends through Sunday. Other weekend activities: Private vendors, discounts at participating downtown merchants, art exhibits, and the Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning. Tickets are available at Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center, 66 S. Main, Sainte Genevieve, MO. $7 per person. Gardens in Bloom Tour June 3rd-4th 4:30-8:30 Fri., 9am-1pm Sat.. Featuring gardens in Belleville
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and Swansea, IL. Tickets available after May 1st at Sandy’s Back Porch, Effinger’s Garden Center, Creative Landscapes Garden Center, Ace Hardware O’Fallon, Hometown Ace Hardware Belleville, and University of Illinois Extension Offices in Waterloo or Collinsville, and online at https://event.gives/ gardensinbloom2022. Day of event tickets at West End Dental, 9460 W. Main Street, Belleville, IL. For more information contact U. of I. Extension (618) 939-3434 or uie-mms@illinois. edu. The Square in Bloom Garden Tour & Antique Fair June 4th 10am-5pm. Tour of 8 unique Lafayette Square neighborhood gardens, local food and beverages, music in the plaza, outdoor living vendors, classic trolley, vintage Packard Club Car, Historic 1860s baseball, evening concert and more, plus the popular outdoor Antique Fair. $15/person, $20 day-of can be purchased at www.lafayettesquare.org/housetours. 27th Annual Town and Country Garden Tour June 4th – 5th 10am. The Garden Tour includes both a walking tour of gardens in downtown Historic Hermann and a driving tour to gardens in the hills around Hermann. The $15 ticket price includes visits to at least four private gardens; these gardens are both in town YOUR TREES DESERVE THE BEST CARE
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