Shawnee Garden Tour

After a four-year hiatus, the Garden Club of Shawnee will be hosting its popular biennial Garden Sampler Tour. Mark your calendars to visit five unique neighborhood gardens June 10, 2023, 9 am to 5 pm, rain or shine. This year’s tour features gardens exhibiting creative ideas for extended outdoor family living areas, child-friendly play areas in whimsical themes, and gardens specializing in organic gardening and native plants. Whether you are interested in flowers or veggies and herbs, sun gardens to shade gardens, wooded gardens to smallspace gardens—you will see it all!

Three of the gardens feature lovely water elements, including ponds, bubbling streams and waterfalls. Some of the ponds are home maintenance perennials as well as potted plants for additional color and flare. It is also a must see!

Across the five gardens, visitors will enjoy seeing a variety of plantings suited for sunny beds and shaded beds, semi-sun and semishade areas, woodland gardens and water gardens, big spaces and not so big spaces. One of the gardens even features a banana grove! And new this year, the Geib’s garden will share the works of a local artist who shares her enthusiasm for nature through watercolor, oil and pencil creations of sunsets, cloudscapes, birds and other creatures.

Tour tickets are $15 each and can be purchased in advance from Family Tree Nursery (Shawnee and Overland Park locations), Wild Birds Unlimited (Shawnee