Learn & Grow With Us Garden Tour
Saturday, July 20, 2024
The 2024 Learn & Grow With Us Garden Tour is scheduled for 9 am – 4 pm on Saturday, July 20, 2024 and will include vegetable gardens in addition to traditional gardens. The Garden Tour features gardens designed, created and maintained by volunteers with the Master Gardener Volunteer Program.
This year’s tour includes seven gardens located in White Bear Lake, Stillwater, Lake Elmo and Oakdale. Volunteers will be stationed throughout the gardens to highlight design features, unique plants and to answer questions. Education stations will be present at each location featuring research-based home horticulture information and resources on native plants, growing vegetables, watering wisely, and pruning shrubs and trees.
Admission
Admission includes entry to all seven gardens, a tour booklet with map, driving instructions and Top 10 plant lists for each garden. Tickets are nonrefundable. The tour will be held rain or shine. A printable list of tour locations will be added to this website soon.
Early bird tickets
Discounted tickets are for $15 per person, ages 13 and older; children 12 and younger are free when accompanied by a paying adult. Advance ticket sales end at 3 pm Friday, July 19. The Order Receipt is the admission ticket, please print and check in at any site to begin the garden tour.
- Advance tickets can be ordered online here.
- Advance tickets can be purchased by phone by calling: (612) 301-1210.
- Questions about ticket purchases, email the Arb at: arbedu@umn.edu
Tickets, purchase at tour
On the Garden Tour day, July 20, tickets will be sold for $20 per person ages 13 and older; children 12 and younger are free when accompanied by a paying adult. Tickets will be sold onsite at 3 of the 7 tour locations and serve as a starting point for the day.
- Credit card purchases: Tickets may be purchased by credit card at only one location, at 12720 Homestead Drive North, White Bear Lake. This location also hosts our Garden Market featuring bird houses, trellises and other garden décor created by volunteers and offered for sale by cash, check or credit card.
- Cash or check purchases: Tickets may be purchased by cash or check only at these two tour locations: 2067 Holly Ave. N., Oakdale and also at the RCS Giving Garden, 11343 39th St. N., Lake Elmo.
Garden Market
Find trellises, bird houses, wood duck nesting houses and other garden decor at our Garden Market located at the White Bear Lake garden, 12720 Homestead Drive North, White Bear Lake.
Garden Guidebook and favorite recipes
We have created a beginner’s guide to growing fruits and vegetables in home gardens, plus shared our favorite recipes using the produce we have grown. The book, “Garden to Table: Learn, Grow, Eat” features plant profiles on everything from asparagus to zucchini including:
- when to plant seeds or seedlings
- companion plants & crop rotation plans
- how to ID common pests
- common diseases for each plant type
This book will be on sale at our Garden Market for $30.
Tour proceeds will be used to support educational service activities in Washington County. Participants in the University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Program share a mission to educate the public with research-based home horticulture information and inspire change to promote healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy planet.
