A private garden on the 2025 Gardeners’ Garden Tour.
Purchase your advance tickets for the annual Gardeners' Garden Tour.
The tour features private area gardens as well as open visitation both days at Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary, SEED Wildlife & Children's Garden, and the Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden. Be inspired!
Join us the evening before for our preview event, Garden Tour Sip & See (separate ticketed event). Price includes a ticket to the tour.
We’re excited to once again partner with Bitty & Beau’s Coffee on Saturday morning from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. They will have bagels, muffins, cookies, hot coffee, cold brew, and vanilla/caramel iced lattes available for purchase in the Main Garden of Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary. Bitty & Beau’s is a human rights movement disguised as a coffee shop that creates an experience that changes the way people see other people, one cup of coffee at a time. We hope you join us in supporting this wonderful business!
Garden Tour Hours: Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
This event happens rain or shine, and tickets are non-refundable. Proceeds benefit Wing Haven’s gardens and programs.
Advance tickets $30 through 5 p.m. on Friday, April 24. Purchase tickets online now or in-person beginning in April 2026 at Wing Haven or Blackhawk Hardware & Garden Center (4225 Park Rd, Charlotte).
Day-of tickets are $35. Purchase during the tour at Will Call (10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and 12-4 p.m. on Sunday), at Blackhawk Hardware & Garden Center (business hours), or online.
All tickets purchased online will be available for pickup at Will Call (248 Ridgewood Ave) during tour hours.
Children 10 and under free.
Tour tickets have all of the addresses listed.
2026 Gardeners' Garden Tour Descriptions
Ellen & Ed Baesel
Our garden began in late fall 1987. We got to work right away forming foundation and border beds. Soon we found out that we inherited many established foundation plants including forsythia, rose of Sharon, ‘Mrs. G.G. Gerbing’ and ‘Formosa’ azaleas, nandina and more. A friend gifted us a “few” Lenten roses, which have now taken over. In the mid-2000’s, we added teacup roses, a leatherleaf mahonia, daylilies, peonies and more from Ed’s parent’s garden.
In 2000, we undertook a large renovation/addition, to move the main entrance from the side to the front and extend out the rear. Those changes helped us define more of our garden rooms as well.
Shade has been our major foe, but we have leaned into living with it. Both the front and rear grass areas were significantly reduced about six years ago and new plantings have gone in those places. We have concentrated on shady plants in the front near the entrance area, adding additional ferns and hostas, several new daffodil varieties and other finds from the Wing Haven nursery sales. The most recent change has been extending a bed on the south side of the drive, plus renovating and improving the north side border.
Dan Boxer
My garden is a collection of yearly projects to reclaim an older property’s existing framework. New plants have been added to accommodate the different growing areas and accentuate the historic home’s unique masonry work.
The Linganore-facing side of the home holds most of the garden. It’s shady and filled with a mass of Lenten roses that bloom in sync, a variety of ferns and hostas blanket the ground, cast iron plants provide visual structural support, and giant fall-blooming leopard plants add texture. New trees have been planted over time and the side terrace garden is unique in that we repeated the masonry brick work (bastard bond) in the accent walls designed and constructed by Myron Greer Garden Design.
Corey Crowder & Jordan Lowery
We purchased our home in 2022 and immediately started our garden. Our inspiration is a “controlled chaos” style that lets the plants take over and show off when in season.
Our home’s previous owners had beautiful daylilies, hostas and Lenten roses that continue to thrive throughout the yard. We’ve added in a number of lilies that were originally planted in Jordan’s grandfather’s garden in Camden, SC, and each Wing Haven sale we find many new plants to add. We are a few years into this garden, and we are excited to watch it continue to grow and expand.
Myron Greer & Jeff Turner
We started our garden in 2005 with boxwoods, hydrangeas and azaleas. In 2012, we introduced a plethora of Japanese maples and perennials. After becoming exhausted with heavy irrigation needs, we began adapting to a sunnier, dry environment in 2023.
Each side of our home is surrounded by structural screening plants with its own unique growing condition. This gave us the opportunity to experiment with very different plantings while still creating a cohesive bond between each garden area. The entry garden has sunny and moist conditions ideal for our perennials, herbaceous plants, and bulbs. The front right side is an extremely dry environment featuring an alpine garden—boulders, native and hardy agave, succulents, and native drought-tolerant perennials. Large stepping stones connect to the side shade garden and lead into the sunny back strolling garden.
One of my favorite areas is the entertaining garden with an outdoor fireplace and patio nestled in among fragrant viburnum in the spring and sweet box in the winter.
Margaret & Angus McBryde
We purchased our historic home in February 2001 and started our garden in 2002 with the help of A Master Plan by John Byrd. Other local designers would impart their expertise over the years, including Hugh Crump, Myron Greer and Laurie Durden.
The underlying theme of the garden leans formal, with its axial symmetry and focal points, boxwood ‘bones,’ and a predominately green and white color palette. However, cottage charm can be found in the garden’s details, which include pea gravel paths, a fig ivy covered fireplace, and the recent installation of a raised vegetable/herb garden.
The primary goal of this garden is to serve our family’s appreciation for time spent outdoors. We look forward to your visit, and with any luck, the snowball viburnum given to me in memory of my mother will be in bloom.
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Wing Haven is supported, in part, by a grant from the City of Charlotte
