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Spring Tour Gardens

Visit five exquisite gardens in the heart of Palo Alto

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Friday, April 25, 10:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday, April 26, 10:00am – 4:00pm

Come and spend a day exploring this year’s collection of show-stopping gardens. Five gardens have been selected for their beautiful and innovative landscaping designs, showcasing creativity and involvement, sophisticated entertaining, exotic getaways, or tranquil retreats.

From modern to traditional, from magnificent to intimate, lush to serene, these gardens are sure to inspire you with their lovely and creative approaches to dining, relaxing, and playing in your own garden.

 

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Tour Info

Garden Tour

  • This is a ticketed self-guided garden tour of five private Palo Alto gardens with free activities and shopping at Gamble Garden on April 25 & 26, 10am-4pm.
  • Tour booklets are available at Gamble Garden and each private garden during the event. 
  • Docents are stationed at each garden to help answer questions. 
  • You may begin your tour at any of the five gardens. 
  • You do not need to visit all five gardens on the same day. Keep your wristband to enter the remaining gardens. 

Locations

  • All five gardens are located in Palo Alto. Addresses to the five private gardens will be sent to ticketholders in early April. 
  • Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden is located at 1431 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Tickets

  • PRESALE: stay tuned for presale ticket info
  • DAY-OF: stay tuned for ticket info
  • Tickets are non-refundable and 100% tax-deductible.
  • This event is rain or shine. 
  • Tickets are distributed by email.
  • A Tour Ticket permits entry into each of the five private gardens on the tour.
  • Tickets may be used on either day of the tour.
  • You do not need to visit all five houses on the same day. Keep your wristband to enter the remaining gardens. 
  • You do not need a ticket to visit Gamble Garden during Spring Tour on April 25 & 26, 10am-4pm.

Accessibility 

  • All private gardens on the tour are suitable for people who use walkers, but none are suitable for wheelchairs. All Spring Tour activities at Gamble Garden are fully accessible.
  • There is one space reserved for disabled person parking placards at each private garden. 
  • At Gamble Garden there are two disabled person parking placard spaces, one in each lot. One lot is located off Waverley St near Embarcadero and the other off Churchill Ave. 

Parking 

  • Parking is limited to neighborhood streets at the private gardens.
  • One disabled person placard parking space is reserved outside each private garden.
  • Gamble Garden has two parking lots. One is accessible from Waverley Street, the other from Churchill Ave. There is street parking surrounding Gamble. 

MORE SPRING TOUR

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  • Over the Garden Fence
    Enjoy our ever-popular Over the Garden Fence sale, with previously owned items at remarkable prices. A treasure hunter's dream!
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  • Preview Party
    Enjoy first access to all Spring Tour has to offer
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  • Plant Sale
    Choose from a wide selection of gorgeous plants, many propagated from Gamble Garden plants.
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  • Silent Auction
    Bid on luxurious goods and carefully curated experiences
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