By Allison Peck
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The annual Landscape and Garden Tour is returning to North Platte later this month, offering residents the opportunity to explore four unique gardens while supporting a local cause.
Sam Elliott joined North Platte Post News Director Allison Peck to discuss the event, which serves as a fundraiser for Deborah’s Legacy, a Christ-centered program that helps women recovering from addiction, homelessness and crisis situations.
The self-guided tour allows participants to visit four featured gardens at their own pace on either Friday, June 26, or Saturday, June 27. Tickets are $20 and are available at Bible Supplies and at Deborah’s Legacy’s temporary headquarters, located at 419 N. Dewey St.
Now in its fourth year, the tour has become a popular summer tradition for many local residents.
This year’s featured gardens offer a wide variety of experiences, including a succulent garden, an acreage property overlooking the rolling hills around North Platte, and a memorial garden honoring a woman who had hoped to participate in the tour before her passing. Her family is sharing the garden in her memory while also displaying some of her quilts and teacup collection throughout the space.
Families may also enjoy one of the tour’s fairy gardens, which Elliott said is sure to inspire visitors of all ages.
In addition to the gardens, attendees can browse a pop-up shop featuring coffee roasted by Deborah’s Legacy as part of the organization’s entrepreneurial program, along with other garden-themed items.
In addition to the gardens and shopping opportunities, attendees can enter prize drawings at one of the tour locations. Prizes include a $35 gift card to Huebner's Nursery, custom-made Adirondack chairs and footstools, a devotional book, a watercolor print, and two tickets to Sip & Snip at Dahlia Valley Ranch in Arnold. Gardening enthusiasts can also enter a special drawing for a Russian bee box designed for beekeeping.
Elliott said the event offers more than beautiful scenery.
“Gardens are happy places,” she said. “Just to know that it is also helping people rebuild their lives. If you change a woman's life, you change a family's life.”
Addresses for the featured gardens are provided with ticket purchase. The tour will take place rain or shine.