Longmont Symphony Orchestra Guild Annual Garden Tour, June 12-13, 2026 by The Publishing House

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Friday & Saturday June 12 & June 13 , 2026 9am - 3pm

Welcome

to the LSO Guild Annual Garden Tour Annual Garden Tour

For over 50 years, the Longmont Symphony Orchestra Guild Garden Tour has been a cornerstone fundraiser for the Symphony. This selfguided tour invites you to explore six stunning home gardens, each one a unique labor of love.

With Master Gardeners available to answer your gardening questions, and LSO musicians accompanying your exploration, the LSO Guild Garden tour is sure to inspire.

Thanks to your generous support, the Symphony will proudly celebrate its 60th season next year. We look forward to inspiring audiences, delivering exceptional performances, and nurturing our vibrant Longmont arts community for another 60 years to come.

About the LSO Guild

The LSO Guild was founded in 1968, and is a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting the Longmont Symphony Orchestra through fundraising activities. The Guild has raised over $125,000 in the last 10 years and is proud to advocate for the arts in Longmont, aiding in the long-term viability of the orchestra. The Guild hosts well-loved community events designed to promote and benefit the orchestra, as well as the Longmont community. For many years, the Guild has also provided snacks for the orchestra members at the dress rehearsals, and gifts for the guest artist at each concert.

Join the Guild

The LSO Guild is welcoming new members who are interested in supporting our dynamic Longmont Symphony Orchestra!

For more information please contact Carma Feigal at: guild@longmontsymphony.org or call the Longmont Symphony office at 303-772-5796.

LSO Guild Events

Garden Tour

Now in its 49th year, this annual time-honored tradition in June has become a must-see experience and is attended by people throughout the Front Range.

Each year enchanting gardens in Longmont are featured in a curated self-guided tour. The event celebrates the beauty of nature, and the creativity of Longmont’s community where nature meets artistry in perfect harmony. This year several incredible musicians from the orchestra will perform at two of the garden locations.

Nutcracker Cookie Sale and Silent Auction

Kids, and kids at heart, are always delighted to see the cookies at The Nutcracker Ballet performances. For 38 years, the Guild and their community partners have made and decorated hundreds of brightly decorated cookies, delectable bars, and chocolate mice to sell in support of the Symphony.

The Quilt Silent Auction acts as both holiday gallery and your one stop shop for beautiful handmade quilts, wall hangings, and crafts from local artisans.

Home Tour

Experience the charm and elegance of Longmont’s Historical West Side at the LSO Guild Home Tour, Saturday, Sept 19th 10am-3pm! Peek into the rich history and distinct styles of the neighborhood at your own pace. Immerse yourself in the beauty of each home and be inspired by the creativity and design elements on display. LSO musicians will be performing at various homes serenading you with their musical talents and adding a harmonious touch to your tour experience.

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Garden Tour Map

2460 Collyer St

When we first bought our house in 2000 there was nothing there except some old junipers in the front, some mums and a couple of peonies in the back under the window. On the north side of the house there was a dog run that was filled with 3-foot-tall weeds. After a couple of years, we began to change that.

First, we pulled out the junipers and replaced them with hydrangeas. Then in 2011 we pulled out the chain link fence and the dog run, added concrete and put up a vinyl fence. We had a landscaper come in and give us a design which we went with.

In 2016 I started working at The Flower Bin and that is where I got inspired to do so many different things. As time went on and I learned all about what we sell here, I started to remove plants and add plants wherever I could, filling in every space available. You might say it became an addiction.

The goal was to have something blooming all season long. So, we have spring bloomers, summer bloomers and fall bloomers.

1958 Sundance Dr

Welcome to a garden symphony with a harmony of color, sight, and sound. The first movement greets you with candy cane cocktail roses encircling our home. As you round the corner unto Twilight, the garden gate welcomes you into our backyard, an intimate sectional. Neighbors routinely stop by for spontaneous visits, a cherished quality of the openness of our yard.

At the heart of the garden is a 50ft pond with 2 waterfalls splashing their gentle rhythm where blue jays and songbirds quench their thirst. Each spring we are delighted by a pair of ducks that come to splash about. The lush plantings of striking colorful impatiens grow into impressive 3 foot mounds.

Keeping with the natural Colorado scene are sedum, daylilies, primroses, native grasses and evergreens swaying in tune to the lovely melody. Water lilies offer shade for the pond’s colorful residents. Try to spy the 7 koi named in honor of great symphony composers: Mozart (curious & lively), Beethoven (larger, deliberate), Bach (elegant precision), Tchaikovsky (dramatic), Debussy (dreamlike), Vivaldi (ever energetic), Chopin (contemplative glider).

Anchoring the entire stage is a magnificent 40ft blue spruce From the inviting cozy outdoor living space, sit back and relax to enjoy this quiet performance of nature’s own orchestra.

1769 Red Cloud Rd

Not exactly a professionally designed landscape or a carefully curated botanical collection, our garden is something more meaningful to me and my family. It is a constant work in progress that reflects our time spent together working, laughing, talking and planting.

Our outdoor space is anchored by mature trees and bushes, providing shade, structure, and a sense of permanence. Their branches offer a canopy that softens the edges of the property. Lining the front sidewalk are Happy Face Potenilla’s and Boxwood Shrubs. Prairie Blazing Star flowers, that provide plenty of pollen for the neighbors bees, are scattered throughout the front and back gardens.

The front gardens are welcoming and calm, the backyard is where the real work and most of the family time is spent. The lawn itself is always a continued work in progress, but the imperfect lawn tells the most authentic story of our family home and active life.

The vegetable garden is a shared family responsibility and we thoroughly enjoy all the “vegetables” of our labor. The Canna flowers enable us to enjoy the numerous hummingbirds and the deck planters with Elephant Ear Colocasia provide a perfect backdrop for evening barbeques with family and friends.

The iris that dot the landscape came from my Grandmother’s and Mother’s gardens, and the rose bushes come back bigger and better each year. We are waiting with anticipation for the perennials to return to a newly created backyard garden space. Fingers crossed. Our gardens are a display of a family working together through a shared effort to create a space full of beauty.

1520 Hilltop Dr

Set beneath the dappled shade of mature elm and hawthorn trees, this Englishstyle cottage garden offers a relaxed mix of structure and natural growth.

A cobblestone retaining wall terraces the space creating a layered garden with a gentle slope up to the trees. A stone path leads through flowering shrubs and seasonal blooms.

Scattered throughout the garden, beehives buzz, as bees fly through the flowers.

In one sunny corner, a small vegetable garden grows in raised beds, while a simple grape arbor provides a bit of shade and a future harvest.

Altogether, it’s a comfortable, lived-in garden that balances beauty and function without feeling overdone.

1181 Winslow Cir

A description of our garden would be that it’s bird friendly, bee friendly and people friendly.

What was once solid turf grass between me and the neighbors has been slowly transformed with plantings that provide food and cover for birds, pollinators, as well as having an array of edibles to nibble on. All of the grass was removed in the back yard and replaced with fruiting trees and shrubs, perennial herbs and native plants. Our goal is to grow and preserve as much food as possible from this small space.

The garden often has a slightly “wild” look. Leaf litter is used as mulch and small sticks and plant debris are left behind for birds to use as nesting materials. The goal is to keep it as natural as possible to benefit wildlife. Spiders and beneficial insects are protected here. The garden is maintained using organic practices, without using synthetic pesticides or herbicides, which can harm birds and their food sources.

It’s an incredible feeling to step outside and forage from our own backyard, knowing that the garden is both a food source for my family and a haven for the local ecosystem.

A list of the fruiting edibles we have planted thus far are Plums, Peaches, Cherries, Grapes, Black, White and Red Currants, Goji berries, Mulberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Elderberries, Blueberries, Raspberries, Honey berries, Clove Currants, Serviceberries and Aronia’s.

Edible perennial herbs in the garden include Parsley, Oregano, Winter Savory, Thyme, Mints, Salad Burnett, Good King Henry and much, much more.

4518 Lucca Dr

Now 20, our garden has been the backdrop to Easter egg hunts, grad parties, s’mores, squirt gun fights, nesting birds, bee stings, trampoline camping, and a few bunny and bird funerals. The flowing landscape is organized around a central slope filled with native and xeriscape plants, chosen to create a progression of blooms April through fall. Each spring, we celebrate with a Flower Bin pilgrimage to restock vegetable beds and annual accents.

Newly featured are peach and nectarine trees, providing both beauty and a reliable snack for our local squirrel, Al K’ashmandu (named for his cashew fondness). As much as we’d like to enjoy the two apple trees, the fruit is more likely to end up with local raccoons, who ate the entire 2024 harvest in one night.

Notable to the menagerie are day lilies lining the back path and peonies that blossom proudly and are gone too quickly. Blankets of snow-in-summer edge a patch of grass and Russian sage brings lots of bees. There’s echinacea, black-eyed Susan, coral bells, catmint, blanket flower, hosta, and lupine. We also enjoy the aesthetic and functionality of our DIY garden bench.

The back of the garden houses a fire pit with stones chosen, cut and set by Dana and Eric in a humble nod to the almighty s’more and the equally powerful cider toddy.

The front yard mimics the flow of the back, with a winding path, stately aspens, berry bushes, strawberry ground cover, and quirky planters. Water-hungry bluegrass has been replaced by Enviroturf, a drought-hardy fescue blend.