Louisville Kentucky

2011 Garden Tour PASSPORT

Save $8 with the 3-Way Discount PASSPORT

The 2011 Garden Tour PASSPORT will provide admission to 3 Louisville area neighborhood Garden Tours for one all-inclusive discount price of $27.00 (a $35.00 value if purchased separately). The participating Garden Tours and dates are:


Each Garden Tour will feature, on average, 8-12 residential gardens witin their unique and histroric neighborhoods. Although individual ticket sales for each Garden Tour will be offered as usual, this limited-time, advance-only-sale, discount package is available only until May 27, All garden Tours will be held rain or shine (no rain dates).
The 2011 Garden Tour PASSPORT will be of great interest to the avid gardener, whether for personal use or as a gift for Mother’s Day, birthdays, thank-yous, etc.
The 2011 Garden Tour PASSPORT may be purchased online until 11 PM, May 27, and will be mailed to you. Tickets are also available up to and including May 27 at the businesses listed below and by mail.

Online ticket sales end May 27th, 2011. Please bookmark this site and come back in 2012!

Purchase online: Pay with credit or debit cards with PayPal.


Purchase in person: Pay with cash, or check payable to “Garden Tour PASSPORT”, at these locations:

Economy Aquatic Gardens - 2915 Preston Hwy.; 502 637-8927; 4506 Bardstown Rd.; 502 499-6353
The Plant Kingdom - 4101 Westport Rd.; 502 893-7333
St. Matthews Feed & Seed - 225 Chenoweth Ln.; 502 896-4473
Wallitsch Garden Center - 2608 Hikes Ln.; 502 454-3553
Stephenson Garden Center - 8136 Dixie Hwy.; 502 935-0353

Purchase by mail: Money orders or checks, made payable to “Garden Tour PASSPORT”, may be sent to Judy Gogan; 2332 Cross Hill Rd; Louisville, KY 40206 . $27 for each PASSPORT must be received by May 27. Sorry, no refunds or exchanges.

PASSPORT sales benefit each association’s civic projects.


Crescent Hill Garden Tour
Sat., June 4, 9 AM – 5 PM

The Crescent Hill Garden Club is very excited to offer this year a garden tour that reflects the diversity of our wonderful neighborhood. We have four artists’ gardens on view. Each uses different media in his/her professional life, and this is manifest in the garden design, ornament and plant selection each has chosen.
This year’s tour participants will see several gardens that demonstrate the growing interest in greening the neighborhood. These sustainable gardens combine vegetables and fruit in combination with ornamentals. We even have a bee keeper! Also not to be missed is the straw-bale studio and garden.
We have many variations of the cottage garden style on offer.  Of the 13 gardens on view, 11 are new to the tour while two are perennial favorites. New this year are the beautiful gardens of the Peterson-Dumesnil House. Be sure to visit the new sitting garden as well as the lovely bridal garden. 
For more information, please visit www.crescenthillgardentour.org


Audubon Park Garden Tour
Sat., June 25, 10 AM – 4 PM

The Audubon Park Garden Club was founded in 1929 to promote the beauty of the surrounding area, including the easements and small parks, and to encourage gardening among its members.  During the annual “Festival of the Dogwood” in April, the residents illuminate their yards and common areas.
In 2002, the Club began holding garden tours to show the more private side of Audubon Park.  Gardens range from formal to intimate, shade to sun, large to small, but all reflect the personal gardening tastes of the owners.  Since all the gardens on the tour are within Audubon Park, many patrons choose to walk the approximately two-mile route.


Old Louisville Hidden Treasures Garden Tour
Sat. & Sun., July 9 & 10, 10 AM – 5 PM

While the gardens are the premiere feature of the tour, over its seventeen-year existence Hidden Treasures has added new elements for its guests’ enjoyment.  The Hospitality Center in Haskins Hall, a part of the historic Conrad-Caldwell House Museum, offers complimentary refreshments and is the site of a silent auction of garden-oriented items.  Vendors, in the shade of old trees, offer plants and garden ornaments for sale.
Since 2003, Gayle Warren, owner of the DuPont Mansion B&B, has generously sponsored Art in the Garden where artists create and display their work and guests may stroll among them to chat if they like. For the third time, Art in the Garden will offer for sale a signed limited-edition poster of a painting, this year by Louisville artist Ken Boatright.
For more information, please visit www.oldlouisvillegardentour.com


Unable to attend all tours?  Individual sales information:

  1. Crescent Hill Garden Tour - $10.00 each.  Available at the Guthrie home, 205 South Peterson Ave.
  2. Audubon Park Garden Tour  - $10.00 each.  Available on day of tour at City Hall, 3340 Robin Rd.
  3. Old Louisville Hidden Treasures Garden Tour  - $12 in advance or $15 on days of the tour.  Walk-in, phone, fax, e-mail or mail at Old Louisville Information Center in Central Park, 1340 S. Fourth St., Louisville, KY 40208; 502 635-5244; E-mail olnc@bellsouth.net

Hope to see you in the gardens!