PORT ANGELES — Tickets will go on sale today for the Petals and Pathways tour of seven gardens scheduled Saturday, June 26.
Tickets are $15 in advance for the self-guided tour. They are $20 the day of the tour.
The 17th Annual Master Gardeners’ Home Garden Tour will highlight a variety of gardens in Port Angeles, said Joni Johnson, garden tour chairwoman.
The showcased gardens will range from a jam-packed productive edible landscape on a very small lot to a serene ranchette featuring cultivated garden beds and fenced pastureland on 4 acres that was heavily forested just five years ago.
All gardens provide examples of what homeowners can do themselves, Johnson said. Homeowners and docents will be available at each garden to point out special features and answer questions.
“They offer a unique and replicable model for water conservation methods, creative garden art, water features, raised beds, disabled accessibility and achieving official Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary status,” said Amanda Rosenberg, publicity chairwoman for the Master Gardeners, in a statement.
The gardens feature native plants, including a collection first documented by Lewis and Clark, John said, as well as unique exhibits of maple varieties, sedums and succulents, roses, shrubs, perennials, grasses and vegetables, she said.
Tickets are available at Airport Garden Center, Gross’s Nursery and Florist, The Greenhouse, Port Books & News, Country Aire Natural Foods, Red Rooster, Cedarbrook Lavender and Herb Farm, Henery’s Garden Center in Sequim and Port Townsend, McComb Gardens, Nash’s Farm Store, Over the Fence, Co-Op Farms and Gardens, Sunny Farms Farm Store, Vision Landscape Nursery, the Sequim Chamber of Commerce, the Clallam County Extension Office and from Master Gardener volunteers.
Proceeds will support local educational programs and maintain Master Gardener demonstration gardens, which are open to the public, free of charge.
The gardens include Woodcock Gardens, the Olympic Peninsula Demonstration Garden at Sequim’s Water Reclamation Park north of Carrie Blake Park and the vegetable garden at Robin Hills Farm, which helps supply food to the Salvation Army soup kitchen in Port Angeles.
