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 beginning at 10AM. These sales are cash and check. You will be given a map at time of purchase.
The 29th Garden Tour is on June 1st and 2nd, 2024. The Descriptions below detail the features of those gardens. Gardens open at 10AM. Welcome to the 29th 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. A green flag will mark the entrance to the garden. There are also some green signs that guide you on turns. Please 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 weekend in June.
Welcome to our gardens!!
Town Gardens 1. Garden Tour Ticket Sales and Topigardens 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. A map will be provided to the Gardens. Don’t miss the beautiful, two-level garden behind the shop called TopiGardens. Enter from Schiller Street through the Moon Gate, and enjoy all the beautiful plantings and garden ornamentation. The gardens are a combination of form and function with a focus on bird habitat. Flagstones connect the two levels of the garden with multiple water features perennial flower beds, and multiple seating areas to watch the birds. Some uneven terrain on rock paths and stepping stones.
Parking: Street Parking on both sides of Schiller and Fourth
2. The Gardens at the Captain Wohlt Inn Important: Guided Tours on the Top of the Hour Our featured vegetable garden is in the back of 116 East Third St. There are beautiful but steep 200-year-old limestone stairs from 3rd St. to the main gardens. The main garden may be accessed from 3rd St., up the stairs along the stone wall. Guests may wait and relax in the garden if they like. We will have free lemonade and water as well as music playing. Feel free to wander around and enjoy the plantings.
Parking available on both sides of 3rd St. The gardens are not handicap accessible, but guests may avoid the limestone stairs by parking, or dropping off, at the alley between 2nd and 3rd St. While a little difficult, buses can navigate down 3rd St. They will need to park or wait along Gutenberg for pick-up.
Gardens 3 & 4 are Public Gardens 3. Hermannplatz (No Gardener Available) (Public Garden located behind the Hermann 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 organizations. This beautiful garden has year-round color. Plantings include Emerald Magic Holly, Crape Myrtle, , Annual Coreopsis, Prairie Dropseed Grass, Dwarf ‘Hamelen’ Grass, and Limelight, Annabelle, Summer Crush, Let’s Dance, Invincible Spirit II, Tiny Quick Fire, and Munchkin Hydrangea, Norway Spruce, Weeping Redbuds and Castle Green Oak. A landscape plan may be provided with tour map.
Parking: Park on either side of West Second Street. Walk to the Hermannplatz before visiting Deutshheim.
4. Deutschheim (Look for container near entrance with brochures describing the garden and 19th-century gardening practices) Enter using the steps located 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 is also a Kraütergarten (herb garden), black raspberry bushes, heirloom peach trees, and a variety of flowers including roses. Visitors can exit the gardens the way they came in. Guided tours of the homes are offered at 10:00, 12:30, and 2:30 on both days and the visitor center will be open from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm each day. The guided tour is $5 for adults and $3 for students.
Parking: Park on either side of West Second Street. Walk to the Hermannplatz from here.
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 on tuteurs along with bountiful raised-bed vegetable garden and herbs. Possible perennials that may be blooming in June include salvias, hydrangeas, Larkspur, nepeta, nicotiana, clematis, spirea, Russian sage, roses, honeysuckle, red hot pokers (if they’ve survived), campanula, Maltese cross, dianthus, wine cups, and poppies. If steps are too great a challenge, you may enter the lower garden from the alley behind the house.
Parking: Park along West Second Street
6. A Garden for Veggies and Relaxation While the plantings in front of the house are lovely, you will want to walk around the house to the garden behind the house. There you will find raised bed gardens with peppers, hybrid sweet corn, White Lady turnips, kale, Better Boy tomatoes, carrots, impatiens, anise, cucumbers, coneflowers, foxgloves, and irises. You may see a frog or other water creature in the tiny pond filled with water hyacinths. Enjoy the sounds of gently splashing water in this peaceful and productive garden.
Parking: Park along Second Street
7. Hofgarten at Hermannhof Enter this relaxing space by passing the traditional fountain on the corner. Notice the beautiful pink and white drift roses nearby. Enter between the gates. Around the edges you will see liriope and daylilies. The window boxes on the railings will be planted with colorful summer annuals. Across Frene Creek, you can see a hillside planted with Norton Grapes, a native American grape from which one of Hermann’s finest wines is made. Nearby is the Black Shire Distillery. You may find a few “distillery barrels” planted with some of the plants that will be used in the Distiller’s Garden to be featured on the 2025 Garden Tour. This may include lavender and juniper.
Parking: Near the entrance to the Hofgarten
Country Gardens 9. Hermann Hills Berries, Bees, and More (U-Pick Berries) This wonderful farm garden features 30 acres of wheat, 17 acres of hay, a beautiful historic home, and an acre of blueberries. You can walk across the levy to the right of the pond to get closer to the blueberries. There are also patches of red and black raspberries and black berries nearby. If berries are ripe, you may be able to pick and buy berries. There are beehives behind the outbuilding/garage, and there will be honey from the farm for sale either on the porch or nearby.
Parking: Follow signs and park as directed.
10. Bright Side Blooms Flower Farm Please enter the garden starting at the front porch and walking towards the hummingbird and butterfly gardens on the north side/right side of the house. Follow along the back of the house to the south side near the lavender plants. Proceed to the middle of the yard near the walnut tree with the rose garden and bench in front of the tree. The flower farm is to the left of the bench. Garden features include a hummingbird garden with trellis, a butterfly garden, a rose garden, and the flower farm with 15 rows of annual flowers. In June, daylilies, butterfly weed, trumpet vines, lilies, white roses, and sunflowers should be blooming. There is also a beautifully-designed lavender garden at the top of the flower garden closer to the road.
Park in the driveway in front of our house or the second driveway at the top of the flower farm.
11. Timary Vineyard Welcome to our vineyard and gardens. In 2003 my husband and I began establishing our own little utopia. We laid out and planted six acres of vineyard, designed and helped build our home and created many gardens. It started out as a blank slate, surrounded by woods. Our home is surrounded by shrubs & trees, perennials, & ground covers. There is a 4000 square foot vegetable/fruit garden with an attached chicken coop and a 1.5 acre pond with water vegetation. It has truly been a labor of love. Small bus or van accessible. Gravel & grass paths on relatively level ground.
Parking is across the driveway from the house.
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