Bloom Where You’re Planted

The featured gardens on this year's Keep Smyrna Beautiful 2nd Annual Garden Tour are sure to inspire. Gain tips from local gardeners to create welcoming and eco-friendly spaces of your own. Tour a variety of unique settings highlighting native landscapes, wildlife sanctuaries, and creative water solutions.

Advance tickets are $10* at the Smyrna Community Center, the Smyrna Recycling Center, and at the following locations: 610 Burbank Hair Salon, Backyard Feed & Seed, Love Street Gifts, and Pie-In-The-Sky. Proceeds from the Garden Tour will benefit the new Community Garden.

*Tickets are $15 on the day of the tour, available at participating gardens and the Taylor Brawner House. For lunch only on May 15, ticket holders will receive a 30% off at Atkins Park and Shane’s Rib Shack, 25% off at Village Café, and a free yummy Savannah bar at Great Harvest Bread Company!

Feathered Friends
The tour showcases two certified wildlife sanctuaries with native shrubs, wildflowers, water features, and woodland shade providing refuge year round.

Humans and birds alike enjoy the Bennett Woods garden. Established with hundreds of species of native trees and berry bushes, this garden also includes hundreds of Jonquils, year round color, fountain, game lawn, and a custom built brick oven and smoker.

The Vinings Estates garden welcomes all winged creatures with native shrubs and a butterfly garden, wildflowers, waterfall, and a wooded path leading to a secluded sitting area.

Edible Landscape
Several fruit trees, as well as blueberries and grapevines, along with herbs and vegetables adorn this garden in the Queens Gate subdivision. A pond takes advantage of lawn drainage. A fire pit and two seating areas maximize this petite and functional yard.

Cottage Garden
A short walk from Smyrna’s Village Green in Williams Park, a local artist shares her indie garden with urban chickens. Heirloom vegetable beds are decorated with found objects and antique bricks. The sunny organic garden cycles back to nourish a flower-cutting garden and wildflowers.

Private Escape
Also in Williams Park, enter this garden through a metal arbor draped with fragrant vines into a tranquil setting. Evergreens and flowering shrubs naturally obscure mechanics of the pool area built to resemble a small pond with waterfalls. Use of the outdoor entertaining area extends beyond seasons with professional lighting and a mosquito system.

Small Space, Big Impact
Woodlawn Gates neighborhood packs our tour’s longest water feature, a Koi pond, and tons of rock. See how moisture from the AC unit resourcefully waters the vegetable garden. Low maintenance perennials, bulbs, trees, and bushes reduce water use.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors: Bright Side, Downey Trees, Chick-Fil-A, Jack's New York Deli, Gina Bridges of Keller Williams Realty, Marietta Signs, Old South Bar-B-Q, City of Smyrna, Stone Forest, Tuxedo Pool Service, The Village Cafe. Visit their displays in our Tea Room at the Taylor Brawner House, featuring garden demos, plant sale, and light refreshments. And Thanks to the Friends of the Garden Tour: Chris & Teri Anulewicz, Atkins Park Tavern, Floral Creations Florist, Great Harvest Bread Company, Howard's Restaurant, Love Street Gifts, Stone Distributors, Joan Stuart, Vinings Mortgage.

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