You can now buy tickets online at Eventeny before the tour. Follow this link. www.eventeny.com/events/ticket/?id=1179. Important: Pick up your map to the tour gardens at Topiaries on the day of your tour. Maps will not be available online.
Ticket Sales will be at Topiaries (138 East 4th Street) in downtown Hermann on tour weekend. These sales are cash and check. You will be given a map at time of purchase.
The 26th Garden Tour is on June 5th and 6th, 2021. The Descriptions below detail the features of those gardens. Welcome to the 26th Year of Garden Tours in Hermann. We are happy you have decided to join us. The money we raise from our tours supports beautification in Hermann and scholarships for Hermann students.
Please do not rely on GPS to find gardens. GPS is unreliable in both the town and country portions of the Tour. Use the maps provided. Also note that many gardens have uneven areas and historic or steep walkways and steps. While we are thrilled that you have decided to come on our tour, the Garden Club and garden owners assume no liability for those who choose to enter the gardens. The tour goes on rain or shine. Visits may be spread over Saturday and Sunday. We hope you enjoy the tour and will return next year; our tours are always the first full weekend in June.
Welcome to our gardens!!
1. Garden Tour Ticket Sales at Topiaries, 138 East Fourth Street Topiaries is located at the corner of East Fourth Street and Schiller Street. Tickets will be sold here from 10 until 4 on Saturday and 10 until 3 on Sunday.
2. Hermannplatz. (Located behind the Historic Hermann Firehouse on Market Street). After you purchase your ticket and pick up both your map and the Hermannplatz landscape plan, walk through this lovely garden behind the old Firehouse. To reach Hermannplatz, park near the old Firehouse and follow the sidewalk behind the Firehouse around the side of the building to the garden with the bronze statue of the German hero Hermann in its center. This Hermann entrance garden was funded by the Garden Club and other community leaders and organizations. This beautiful garden has year-round color. Plantings include Deciduous Holly, Itea “Sweetspire”, Crape Myrtle, Drift Roses, Annual Coreopsis, Prairie Dropseed Grass, Dwarf ‘Hamelen’ Grass, Limelight and Annabelle Hydrangea. You can walk to the next three gardens from here.
3. Demonstration Area at Deutschheim State Historic Site Pommer-Gentner House Garden. Enter between 101 W. 2nd and 107 W 2nd. Pass through the beautiful old iron gate and step back in time. A traditional German four-square gemüsegarten is planted with heirloom vegetable varieties, as it would have been in the 19th century. There are also a Kraütergarten (herb garden), black raspberry bushes, heirloom peach trees, and a variety of flowers including roses. A small 1880s half-timber barn with historic tools and farm equipment will be open to explore. Listen to lovely traditional live dulcimer music on Saturday will add to this garden’s unique appeal. Free heirloom gardening handouts will also be available. Visitors can exit the gardens through the barn into the alley or through the Feldman garden back onto 2nd Street. Guided tours will not be available of the homes on garden tour days, but the visitor center will be open from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm each day and may have capacity limitations if over-crowded.
4. The Garden of Nature’s Gentle Spirits Wrapping around this beautiful 1901 Queen Anne, this small, perfectly-manicured garden is the essence of peacefulness. Go up the steps in front of the house, and then walk around the house on the pathway to the left into the back garden. The south side hosta garden, just a few years old, opens to a more open space with somewhat of a pastoral feel. It is a small garden, but it brings us much joy to its creators! Look for lilies, gaura , iris, garden phlox, clematis, columbine, and rhododendron.
5. A Blend of Beauty and Bounty This garden is in the second block west of Market Street. Enter the garden from West Second Street, go around the house to the left, noting the beautiful plantings in front of and beside the porch. Then take the steps down into the back garden where you will find beautiful flowers, shrubs, and vines along with bountiful vegetables and herbs. Possible perennials that may be blooming include catmint, roses, salvia, and larkspur. If steps are too great a challenge, you may enter the lower garden from the alley behind the house.
6. Windy Hill Farm Enter through the green gates by the Windy Hill Cut Flower Farm sign. Park in the field on the right side of the lane. This is a 28-year-old estate garden filled with wildflowers and hostas. It was beautifully designed by a gardener formally trained in horticulture. There is also a large vegetable garden. The gardener asks that visitors try to stay 6-feet apart.
7. Lyon School Studio Prairie & Gardens. There is ample parking on the gravel drive and in the cut field. The terrain is uneven but it is not steep. There are stone steps. A unique benefit of your visit to this garden is a possible visit with Plein Air Artist Julie Wiegand and the opportunity to view her paintings in her gallery in small groups. Julie’s husband is a landscape architect, so the garden and prairie benefit from his expertise. The 12 acres of prairie is being restored and has delightful cut walking paths created by the owners; the visitor will enjoy a serene sense of blended old world and new. The front garden complements a circa 1861 historic one room schoolhouse. Landscaping is a mixture of native and non-native annuals and prairie grasses along with edible plants and flowers.
8. Woodland Wonder Park in the circle drive near the house. There is a lot to see here, and all the work. both hardscape and plantings, is done by the gardener. The terrain is uneven. When you descend the hill through the woods down our driveway, the scenery opens up to a large full sun circle drive rock flower bed and a large shade garden in front of our house. As you begin to explore the plantings under the trees, note the unique process the gardener has used to keep the many plantings from getting droughted. The walkway leading to the house passes a 1500 gallon pond featuring waterfalls and goldfish. Visitors will appreciate the variety of sun and shade garden flowers as well as the literal tons of foundation stones the gardener has fashioned into walls, terraces, and a fire pit. The vegetable garden features a variety of ground beds, raised beds, and vertical planters in which a lot of vegetables can be grown on a limited amount of space.
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