MLGC will hold its 20th annual “Secret Country Gardens” Tour featuring gardens throughout Garrett County on June 20, 2020. This is an important community educational event, as well as our major fund-raiser. Four or five residential gardens are included representing both small and large properties, rural and urban, some along Deep Creek Lake. Recently two state parks have been featured which provided education to the community about raingardens, native plants, shoreline buffers, pollinators, and deer-proofing techniques. Virtually all regular members and a large number of associate members participate during the tour in various capacities.
Supplementing the gardens at the tour, the Horticulture Committee organizes a perennial plant sale, with plants donated from our members’ gardens. This has been an ongoing project for the tour for the past 15 years. Visitors know that our plants are super hardy having been grown here in our Zone 5 gardens. Committee members also staff the sale, offer assistance to visitors looking for plants, and give guidance on planting and maintaining them.
For the past four years, the Floral Design Committee has created a large mass floral arrangement for each home owner that has served as a Host Garden on the “Secret Country Gardens Tour”. All the flowers used in these arrangements were donated from MLGC members’ gardens and given as a token of our appreciation for those who open their gardens to the public attending our Tour.
Supplementing the gardens at the tour, the Horticulture Committee organizes a perennial plant sale, with plants donated from our members’ gardens. This has been an ongoing project for the tour for the past 15 years. Visitors know that our plants are super hardy having been grown here in our Zone 5 gardens. Committee members also staff the sale, offer assistance to visitors looking for plants, and give guidance on planting and maintaining them.
For the past four years, the Floral Design Committee has created a large mass floral arrangement for each home owner that has served as a Host Garden on the “Secret Country Gardens Tour”. All the flowers used in these arrangements were donated from MLGC members’ gardens and given as a token of our appreciation for those who open their gardens to the public attending our Tour.
