Mark your calendars: 2026 Garden Walk, June 6 & 7.
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Summer Garden Walk
2026 Garden Walk
Saturday, JUNE 6, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Sunday, JUNE 7, noon to 4:00 pm
The Bloomington Garden Club’s Annual Summer Garden Walk is a special time to wander in five stunning gardens especially chosen for variety of size, plant selection, design, and location and to enjoy a flower show. Members of Bloomington Watercolor Society paint in each garden, and Garden Club members are available to answer gardening questions.
During our annual Garden Walks, gardens may be visited in any order on both days, and cameras are welcome. Tickets include a detailed map to guide visitors to gardens. Garden Walk tickets, available beginning in May from local vendors, are $10 and are good for both days. Children under age 12 are free.
Why visit local gardens on a Garden Walk?
1. Enjoy these specially chosen gardens
2. Learn about unique plant collections
3. Observe ways to design gardens using a variety of plants
4. Notice the use of special architectural features
5. Take photographs for later reference
Presenting a Garden Walk each summer for over 30 years is Bloomington Garden Club’s way of stimulating a love of gardening as well as civic planting and beautification. Money raised from the annual Garden Walk is distributed to nonprofit organizations that apply for grants for community beautification or education. Bloomington Garden Club has a special interest in children’s gardening opportunities.
Proceeds from the Garden Walk are awarded to nonprofit organizations to support their gardening endeavors.
See Community Projects for a list of this year’s grant recipients.
See Applying for Grants if you are thinking about applying.
See Grant Application if you are ready to apply for a grant.
Tribute to Moya Andrews (1939-2025)
Excerpts from IU President Emeritus Michael McRobbie’s tribute honoring Moya Andrews, a longtime member of the Bloomington Garden Club:
Moya Andrews, an outstanding former Indiana University faculty member and long-standing friend, passed away recently. She was a highly regarded and distinguished researcher and teacher in audiology and speech who published extensively in these fields.
Moya had a deep commitment to academic excellence and integrity. She served with great distinction as the dean of the faculties and vice chancellor of academic affairs (basically the chief academic officer) for the IU Bloomington campus from 1999 to 2004.
She had a lifelong interest in horticulture and had qualified as a master gardener. On her retirement, she was able to devote much more of her time to this and hosted a regular WFIU Public Radio program “Focus on Flowers” for hundreds of episodes until her passing. For nearly 30 years, I have driven past her house on my way to IU and have never failed to admire her beautiful garden.
Any university anywhere in the world would have been proud to have had a person of her quality, decency, and integrity as a member of their faculty.
Link to the McRobbie’s full text:
Linda Health honored by State of Indiana
Long-time BGC member, Linda Heath was awarded Indiana's prestigious Golden Hoosier Award last summer. Click here to read more.
Bloomington Area Garden-related Organizations
The Bloomington Garden Club is one of many garden-related organizations in Bloomington and Monroe County.
[Click here to find out more about them.]
What does Bloomington Garden Club do?
Bloomington Garden Club focuses the majority of its energy each year on organizing and presenting its annual Summer Garden Walk and Flower Show, as it has annually since 1990. All earnings from its annual Garden Walk and Flower Show are distributed back into the community...
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