In partnership with the Helen Schuler Nature Centre, the Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society is resuming its annual garden tours on Friday and Saturday July 11-12th, 2025 !
For last minute ticket requests, please email us at LDHSgardentour@gmail.ca (important: indicate the number of tickets you’d like and your phone number)
Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased in cash at the following locations until Friday, July 11:
- Green Haven Garden Centre (5 S Sunnyside Rd)
- Custom Indoor Grow (1269 2 Ave S)
- Home Hardware (550 University Dr W)
- Coaldale Nurseries (2905 21 Ave, Coaldale)
- Country Blooms Garden Centre (90008 Rg Rd 210)
- Hilgersom Landscape Centre (5425 24 Ave S)
- Urbane Eight (320 Bridge Dr W)
- Lethbridge Exhibition Farmer’s Market (Sat. June 28)
Visit the garden tour webpage here: https://ldhsgardentour.wordpress.com/
Your ticket includes:
- admission to 2 bonus gardens on Friday (6-8pm) and 7 gardens on Saturday (to be viewed between 9:30am-12pm and 1-3:30pm)
- guest presentation on Saturday at 8:30am by Derek Melting Tallow about the Secure your Food program and approaches for growing food from seed.
- bring your bag lunch to the Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society Henderson Gardens at 12-1pm.
- Native Plant Sale at 3:30-4:30pm with K & S Growers.
- guest presentation at 4:30pm by Steve MacRae (Prairie Xeriscape Designs) about using native drought tolerant plants in urban gardens.
Event will wrap up at 5:30pm.
- Special thanks to our partners and sponsors!
ARCHIVE:
December 17, 2021
Cowley Garden tour, Summer, 2021
A group of Horticultural Society members visited Donna Cisar’s beautiful garden in Cowley. Judy Matlock and Paul Stevenson provided photos .We could use an uplift at the start of a new winter
Coaldale Garden tour (archive)
Gardeners can’t resist seeing others’ gardens, and photographing the infinite ways to display plants. These photos, of the recent Coaldale garden tour, were shot by Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society member Judy Matlock.
Dirk and Wilma De Vries
Darlene and Darwin Heiser
J.J. and Jodie Vandekraats
J.J. and Jodie Vandekraats
Other gardens in the tour were at the homes of Don and Georgina Warner, Duncan and Doreen Lloyd and Arie and Margaret VanSeters.
Calgary Tour 2014
A group of 12 carpooled to see the Calgary Public gardens and we even made a detour on the way back to Black Diamond to visit Vale’s Greenhouse. There were a lot on interesting plants, some I was unfamiliar with. So it was a bonus to be with other more experienced gardeners and share their knowledge. We all learned something and many of us came back with new plants for our gardens…
Yvonne Bruinsma
A Lethbridge backyard garden
From top left: Fairy garden in a bird bath; Hepatica, the season’s first bloom; Lupin; Monarch on a Blazing Star; pond lily; prickly pear; rose.
Parkland Peonies in Okotoks Alberta grows around 900 different cultivars of peonies, of a 4.5 acre piece of land. With around 15,000 peony plants in the field members are sure to find something they love. Each season Parkland Peonies have an open garden event around June 20 to July 10, dependent on mother nature of course. I am writing to you as maybe some of your members might be interested in visiting this season. Information will be on line closer to the dates, but you can check out the website to see information from last seasons event. It is a ticketed event, cost is minimal at $10 per person. Fresh cut flowers are also available for purchase at the open garden. Thank you
http://www.parklandpeonies.com
Thank you for reaching out with the information about your Peony Farm. I did notice the Medicine Hat Horticultural Assoc. had set up a tour for their club, but unfortunately we had our spring already planned. I will send a note to our members that you are available for visits for this year. However, it may be too late for us to set up a club tour this year. I’ll discuss it with the board at the next meeting and we will be in touch about perhaps arranging something for next year.