The Southern Garden Tour is back this June , inviting members of the gardening industry to explore top run gardens across three Southern state . Hosted by Young ’s Plant Farm , the University of Georgia Trial Gardens , and Metrolina Greenhouses , the tour anticipate a vivacious showcase of founding , plant carrying into action , and industry networking .
Event datesJune 3 – Young ’s Plant Farm , in Auburn , Alabama . The Industry Open House begins at 8 a.m. and runs through 4 p.m.
June 4 – University of Georgia , in Athens , Georgia . The Industry Open House is in the dawning ; however , gardens remain open all day and industriousness members are welcome to return throughout the summer .
June 5 – Metrolina Greenhouses in Huntersville , North Carolina . The Industry Open House begin at 8 a.m. Lunch is at noon and the garden is open until 2 p.m.
The Southern Garden Tour is a ego - guided event design for grower , breeders , broker , educators , landscape gardener , and ally swop member of the horticulture manufacture . It offers an immersive tone at real - world garden trials highlight the performance of the latest flora genetics .
The newly updated SouthernGardenTour.com serves as the duty tour ’s key hub , providing land site - specific inside information , enrollment access , hotel and dining recommendations , and sole substance . unexampled for 2025 , the website features top - do 2024 plant varieties , photos , and curated industry trade mass medium coverage from each location .
extra highlights include Metrolina Greenhouses ' invitation - only consumer event for Home Garden Panel members , where or so 125 consumers will participate in focus groups , and 500 + consumers will research the 3 - acre visitation garden and slacken off their favourite varieties . The yearly consequence gathers qualitative consumer insights that are follow up with quantitative research . HGP members receive secret consumer penchant data and nidus grouping reports , providing worthful end - drug user feedback on raw plant genetics and ware concepts .
New at Young ’s Plant Farm this class , the trial garden is partnering with Food U , a political program at Auburn University that provides sustainable , student - develop food for on - site use . In collaborationism with Food U , the Young ’s Plant Farm Trial Garden will feature herbs , vegetable , and edible unfolding annual throughout the trial garden , and Auburn University ’s Food U Coordinator Jack Maruna will be onsite to answer questions . Guests of the visitation garden will also be able to coiffe for a duty tour of the rooftop garden at the nearby Laurel Hotel , which provides produce for 1856 Culinary Residence , a teaching restaurant on the Auburn University campus .
For more information : Southern Garden Tourwww.southerngardentour.com
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