Placitas Garden Tour
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| This year’s seven diverse landscapes showcase what’s possible with native and low-water use plants, creative hardscaping, and thoughtful use of garden art, including one property with a large-scale Stonehenge structure. |
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| Each presents a sustainable solution to the challenges of high desert gardening, from reseeding to attracting pollinators, capturing rainwater, companion planting, and invigorating mature plantings. |
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Added attractions Horticultural and composting experts will be on hand to answer your questions. Visit the Sandoval County Master Gardener Help Desk at the Placitas Community Library, or talk with Bernalillo County Master Composter John Zarola in The Zenful Garden. The library also offers these garden-themed activities throughout the day: — Guided tours of its landscaping and natural areas, honored as a wildlife habitat, backyard refuge, and Nationwide People’s Garden; — Seedball making and labyrinth for kids; — Seed library, request some for your garden; — Daylily sales with Julie Rohr of the Albuquerque Daylily Society; — Food demonstrations by Sandoval County Extension Agent Madeline Guerney; — Garden art exhibit in the gallery. Food and beverages will be available from Placitas Pizza, The Merc, and Placitas Winery. |
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How to get tickets Placitas Garden Tour tickets are available for $15 through Saturday, Sept. 7 — online and at the Placitas Library, The Merc grocery, and major Albuquerque area garden stores. On the day of the tour, they will be $20, sold only at Homesteads Village, 221 NM Highway 165, and Placitas Community Library, NM Highway 165. Premier advertising sponsors: Jennise Phillips of La Puerta Realty, Osuna Nursery, Faces, and Jericho Nursery. |