St Anthony Park Garden Club
2009 Garden Tour
Saturday June 27 from 10-4.
Twelve stunning gardens will be part of the tour. Proceeds benefit garden and natural resource projects in St. Anthony Park. Advance tickets are $10 for adults and $4 for youth.
Advance tickets are available at Tim and Tom's Speedy Market, Micawbers Book Store, and the Bibelot (on Como Avenue) starting Saturday, June 6, 2009. Tickets will also be available at the St. Anthony Park Art Festival on June 6th.
Or send a check to:
SAP Garden Club
PO 8195 St Paul
MN 55108
Mail order tickets will be held at the Library to be picked up the day of the tour.
To purchase tickets on the day of the tour, go to the SAP Library at the corner of Como and Carter Ave. Tickets will be $12 for adults and $4 for youth the day of the tour.
The SAP Garden Club is an organization of gardeners mostly from the lovely, historic neighborhood of St. Anthony Park in St. Paul. The Club raises funds with these tours for educational programs related to gardening and the environment, maintaining gardens at the local library and the Minnesota State Horticultural Society Garden at the State Fair Grounds, tree planting, invasive species removal, and scholarships for horticultural students at the University of Minnesota.
This neighborhood is full of beautiful gardens. The gardeners are very creative in the use of their sometimes challenging lots. With each tour the Club tries to have variety in the gardens selected in order to showcase this creativity. Participants will notice that, while we have selected only 12 gardens for the tour, there are many interesting gardens throughout the neighborhood. We keep the number small so that it is possible to see them all in one day. This year, there will be gardens that feature rock gardens, rain gardens, native plantings, both shade and sun gardens, gardens on steep slopes, both formal and informal gardens.
