Garden Tour 2025
Pleasant Gardens in the Valley
Pleasant Gardens in the Valley
The tour featured four gardens and farms in the Pleasant Valley area of southern Garrett County: Wonderly Farm Garden, Backbone Food Farm, Yoder Family Farms, and Wild Wind Café & Flower Farm. This year’s tour focused on farming and biodiversity, featuring both flower and food farms.
In addition to the gardens, tour attractions included flower gift basket demonstrations by the Floral Design Committee, live music at all locations, and lunch for sale at three of the four locations. There was also a historical displays and information on the club’s ongoing partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
In addition to the gardens, tour attractions included flower gift basket demonstrations by the Floral Design Committee, live music at all locations, and lunch for sale at three of the four locations. There was also a historical displays and information on the club’s ongoing partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
Jenny Neville and Ellen Cowgill
Garden Tour Chairs
Garden Tour Chairs
Garden Tour June 22, 2024
FEDERATE GARDEN CLUBS OF MARYLAND, COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD, First Place to Mountain Laurel Garden Club 2024 Garden Tour
The 2024 Victorian Garden Tour was a wonderful success thanks to are garden owners and the many helping hands. The enchanting experience at the Historical Mountain Lake Park, where visitors were immersed themselves in the beauty of eight Victorian home gardens. Guest meandered down G street, while being treated to the harmonious blend of live music, floral Tussie-mussie demonstrations, historical and gardening displays, fun photo ops, refreshments and more.
This event was a perfect opportunity for garden enthusiasts and history buffs alike to come together and celebrate the community's rich gardening heritage.
This event was a perfect opportunity for garden enthusiasts and history buffs alike to come together and celebrate the community's rich gardening heritage.
2023 Annual Gardens Tour
June 24, 2023
June 24, 2023
MLGC 21st Garden Tour
MLGC held its 21st Annual Country Gardens Tour featuring gardens throughout Garrett County on Saturday, June 25, 2022. This was an important community educational event, as well as our major fund-raiser. The tour featured four residential gardens; an invasive plant display, floral design demonstrations; Habitat for Humanity community garden project display and Maryland Department of the Environment display featuring MD Water Wise program.
MLGC Country Gardens Tour 2021
Our 20th annual garden tour was held in Accident on Saturday, June 26. Three gardens were featured. Three Sisters Farm is a working farm that highlighted crops, flowers, and livestock. Additional activities at this farm included a food truck/caterer who made small plates using meat and produce from the farm, a mini farm market selling the products that normally would have been at the Farmers’ Market, and representatives from the farm bureau. Cove Pastures, another farm in the area, showed visitors row after row of flowers that the owner use for her floral business. Also at this farm club members put on three demonstrations of floral design, which was a big hit to guests. The third garden on the tour belongs to a club member and was packed full of gorgeous flowers, trees and shrubs.
2021 Country Garden Tour Gardens
Secret Country Garden Tour 2019
Our Garden Tours are our major fund-raiser, as well as important community educational event. Four or five residential gardens are included representing both small and large properties, rural and urban, some along Deep Creek Lake. In the recent past two state parks have been featured which provided education to the community about rain gardens, 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. The Horticulture Committee's perennial plant sale, with plants donated from our members’ gardens, 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.