Experience the Garden Tour on May 11

Once again, the Wimberley Garden Club invites you to explore the stories of our diverse, nature-loving community during its annual garden tour, Saturday, May 11, from 9 am to 3 pm.

This year’s self-guided journey, themed “Nature’s Palette,” will take you from post-flood Blanco riverside recovery to Woodcreek diamond-in-the-rough creativity to scrappy outland gardening on the Hays/Blanco border. Tickets are $20 and are available from now to May 6 at www.wimberleygardenclub.org (by credit card) and from May 6 to 11 at the Wimberley Visitor’s Center (cash or check only). Tour guides and admittance wristbands must be picked up at the Visitor’s Center on the day of the tour.

The Wimberley Valley Art League is collaborating with the Garden Club for the third year, and artists will create and sell their beautiful works at each of the gardens – oils, acrylics, jewelry, mixed media, sculpture and more. The tour’s popular Garden Lovers Market will offer canvas shopping bags painted and signed by Art League members, as well as beautifully decorated watering cans, whimsical rock art and, of course, a selection of native and adapted plants to enhance your own landscape. All proceeds will benefit the Wimberley Garden Club’s annual donations to local restoration, beautification and community gardening projects.

Specialists in honeybee attraction and preservation, water-wise gardening, poultry raising and birding, tree care and native plant preservation will be at various locations, as well as Garden Club members, Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists to help you identify plants, answer questions and offer tips.