Thank you to everyone who attended and supported the 2025 Garden Walk!
Summer Garden Walk
Bloomington, Indiana
2025 Garden Walk was on:
Saturday, May 31, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Sunday, June 1, noon to 4:00 pm
**We will post photos and will announce the dates for the 2026 Garden Walk soon. Stay tuned!
The Bloomington Garden Club’s 2025 Annual Summer Garden Walk was a special time to wander in five private gardens especially chosen for variety of size, plant selection, design, and location and to enjoy a flower show, Madam Butterfly. Members of Bloomington Watercolor Society were painting in each garden, and Garden Club members and owners were 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 private gardens on a Garden Walk?
1. Enjoy these specially chosen private gardens and meet the owners
2. Learn about unique plant collections
3. Observe ways to design gardens using both native and drought-tolerant 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.
What is Earth Day?
Earth Day is held worldwide on April 22 as a day to focus on environmental issues and to spearhead year-around efforts by individuals, states, and nations to work in concert to protect our planet.
Each year has a designated theme; Earth Day 2024’s theme was Planet vs. Plastics. As a result of Earth Day work worldwide, we learned a lot of material about the impact of plastic: floating in oceans, effects on animals such as birds and sea life as well as on health of human beings, and use of plastics contribution to climate change.
Earth Day 2025’s theme is Our Power, Our Planet, with a focus on supporting renewable energy sources, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, providing clean electricity, and providing improved living standards worldwide.
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...
[Click here to find out more about BGC.]
