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At least one of the gardens will feature refreshments!
Play the tourist in your own home town: go on the Canyon County Garden Tour. As you visit some of our loveliest local gardens, you'll help the Canyon County Republican Women raise money for a great cause, Operation International Children; it gives school supplies to our soldiers overseas to hand out to their local kids. The gardens range from the flat to the hilly, the mini to the massive, and the manly to the frilly. One of us has been preparing since 1946.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Mark your calendars!
The Canyon County Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, August 27th, 2011. The gardens will be available from 10:00am to 5:00pm. Tickets are $10 and proceeds will be donated to Operation International Children.
THE GARDENS
At the home of a master gardener : a small yard in a subdivision six to seven-years-old which includes several arbors, a separate “room” or garden, a darling potting bench made of old materials, a "music tree", blueberries, strawberries, a patio, turkeys and a quail sanctuary. This host also co-managed an inmates' garden at the prison for a while.
At the home of a master gardener : a small yard in a subdivision six to seven-years-old which includes several arbors, a separate “room” or garden, a darling potting bench made of old materials, a "music tree", blueberries, strawberries, a patio, turkeys and a quail sanctuary. This host also co-managed an inmates' garden at the prison for a while.
An old property, with deep, raised square-box beds, chickens, go
ats, a horse, a pony, a rill...
ats, a horse, a pony, a rill...An intimate, smallish city garden that features decorative rock work, chickens, grapes and other edibles mixed in with ornamentals, Idaho natives, a “fruit salad” tree and no lawn.
A 3/4 acre garden that’s been evolving since 1946; It includes a red log house on a creek, a walk-in doll house with antique stained-glass windows, a grape arbor, a furnished “pump house”, and much more! (Donkeys across the street.)
A great garden on a hill across from Lizard Butte in west Caldwell. It features a series of pools that cascade down the hill, a rose garden, a pergola and has a paid gardener.
A church's charity garden managed by two master gardeners. It produces about 3000 lbs of produce each summer, which is between 3000 and 9000 servings of food that is distributed to needy people. They refurbish and replant each raised bed two or three times in a summer, which takes just 3 hours! The 32” rows are double rowed and weeds are crowded out by the dense plants. They make use of vertical space by growing plants such as cantaloupes and cucumbers on trellises. These living walls, placed on the west side of the garden, create shade for lettuce.
A live camel, which its owners bought for use in biblical pageants. You may stop by to give him some hay if you want to.
A vegetable garden, which is planted in sections of large concrete pipes set on end, with gopher wire to keep t
he critters out. Last year the owners fed over 85 families out of these cornucopias. They also have 2 large ponds (1,000,000 gal.) with koi that just had new babies.A large, mature garden that was once the center of a 40-acre estate, much of which was donated to the city of Nampa. It includes a great variety of flowers and big trees set in a meticulously manicured lawn, old farm implements and wagons and a huge vegetable garden. (Even the dogs’ fenced yard is landscaped.) This one also has a paid part-time gardener.
No telling who you'll run into at any of these stops!
Call 466-9794 if you have a question. Please read our "FAQs" page to see a few guidelines for respecting these wonderful gardens.
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