Garden Tour 2026

The organizing committee of the Georgian Bay Garden Tour is hard at work preparing for the 2026 Tour, to be held on Saturday, July 25th! We have a considerably varied lineup of terrific green-thumb abodes for you to come check out! Here's a sneak peek at the 2026 Feature Gardens.

We appreciate everyone who helped make the 2025 Tour another great success! Members of the Georgian Bay Garden Tour present a $16,000 check to Hospice Huronia, showcasing community support and generosity. A selection of committee charity representatives, volunteers, garden hosts, and artisans gather for a cheque presentation, celebrating their community efforts on a beautiful day.

Over 150 of you eager green-thumbs filled out a 2025 Mystery Plant Competition answer card. The competition had been on hiatus for several years, as the advent of plant identification apps took the competition out of a simple identification approach. To adapt, and bring this crowd-pleasing feature of the Georgian Bay Garden Tour back, we had to get inventive and approach it differently with more complicated questions, including many with difficult to google answers. Thanks so

Like much of summer 2025, Saturday, July 26th was a scorcher, but that did not discourage over 400 gardening enthusiasts from striking out for some Georgian Bay adventure and green-thumb delights. Imaginations were tickled and inspiration abundant within the twelve feature gardens, ranging from sandy beachfront dune plantings, vegetable plots and swaths of beneficial wildflowers, to cosy backyard retreats, trickling brooks and waterfalls, nature-decorated mossy rock retaining