HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson Garden Tour returns this Saturday.
"Our last tour was in 2019," said Dee Bisbee, garden tour chair. "That seems like it was about 10 years ago, really, but we're back and we're excited. We have a great group of gardens that will be on the tour this year. Four country gardens and one city garden, along with our garden at the Hutchinson Community College."
The first event connected with the garden tour is available to those who purchase advance tickets and it is a guided bird walk at one of the locations. Those advance tickets are available for $8 between now and June 9 at the following locations:
All Dillon’s locations in Hutchinson
Bornholdt Plantland, 1508 West 4th Street
Prairie Hills Nursery, 2999 East 30th Avenue
Stutzman’s in Pleasantview and at 925 East 30th Street
Absolutely Flowers, 1328 N. Main Street
Dillon Nature Center, 3002 East 30th
Smith’s Market, 211 S. Main Street
Reno County Extension Office, 2 West 10th, South Hutchinson
Tickets will also be available at each garden for $10.00 the day of the tour, with children 12 and under free and there will be help for gardeners at the garden at HutchCC.
"From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Pam Paulsen, who is our Reno County horticulture agent, she will be there doing Garden Guru," Bisbee said. "If you have a problem in your garden, bring a sample in a Ziploc bag, take a picture, she will try and identify and figure out what the problem is for you."
Garden tour proceeds support the Master Gardeners educational programs at the demonstration gardens at HutchCC, along with the Reno County Extension Office, the Hutchinson YMCA and the Garden for Good at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility-East Unit.
"If you need us to do a lecture for you or an educational moment, contact the Reno County Extension Office," Bisbee said. "They will get back to you with some type of information. We've had such a call for things, for people to have us, that we almost don't have enough people to do it."
Gardening really took off as a hobby during the pandemic, and Bisbee's hope is to get some of those gardeners that started in earnest then to come out and get some tips to help them during Saturday's event.