Spring home and garden tours provide that rare opportunity to walk through other people's yards, on patios and porches to see how they create their own private paradises. While pool, patio, home and garden shows are a great place to learn about new products, attend seminars and see the work of local landscape designers, it's the home and garden tours that really put you right where you want to be: in the backyards and front yards of home dwellers and owners like yourself. Since they live in your region, you get to see up-close how others deal with challenges like climate, soil, native plants and drought.
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours
Garden tours throughout the United States, sponsored nationally by The Garden Conservancy. Tours are in various cities, April through August 2011; check website for a tour near you.
Enchanted Gardens of Northwest Denver
Saturday, June 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
After party starting at 4 p.m.
Tour features 20 gardens, including urban farms, kid-friendly gardens, sculpture gardens, container and xeriscape gardens.
Michigan 18th Annual Celebration of Home & Garden
Photo: Heartland Alliance
Saturday, June 11, 2011
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Central Time / 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Harbor Country, Michigan
With a reception to follow at Burnison Galleries, 5460 Red Arrow Highway, Lakeside, Michigan. Architecture and garden design are on display for a once-only opportunity to tour custom-designed homes and gardens in the bucolic surroundings of southwest Michigan and Northwest Indiana. Tour, pre- and post- parties benefit Heartland Alliance for homelessness.
San Miguel de Allende Biblioteca House and Garden Tour
© 2009 Biblioteca Publica de San Miguel de Allende
Ongoing tour, most Sundays.
One of the most popular attractions in the beautiful Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. House and gardens featured on the weekly tours are different each week, and include everything from Colonial mansions to tiny adobe casas, and newly built homes to artists' retreats.
Information: 152-4987.
