12th Biennial Spring Garden Tour

The Garden Club of Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi, will host its 12th Annual Biennial Spring Garden Tour on April 6-7, 2022, featuring four homes and five gardens in the gated community of Meadowbrook Highlands. One garden is the Japanese Meditation Garden. Entrance and ticket sales will be at Covenant Presbyterian Church at 4000 Ridgewood Road. There will also be Garden Club of Jackson’s Go Native Plant Sale. Boxed lunches will be available and will be a sale of art by GCJ members. Details are at gardenclubofjackson.com.

This biennial event will benefit the Eudora Welty House and Gardens, a National Historic Landmark. Eudora Welty, Jackson’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was an avid gardener who personally tended the grounds around her Belhaven home, an area that has benefited over the years from GCJ’s financial gifts and weekly hands-on work; and the club is excited about the opportunity to make a difference at this historic property. Funds will go to transform the home’s stucco garage into dedicated classroom space for horticultural activities and workshops.

The Garden Club of Jackson was founded in 1991 to be a working club focused on conservation and civic improvement projects. In 2006 the club became a member of The Garden Clubs of America and The Garden Clubs of Mississippi. Celebrating over thirty years of civic improvement, conservation, gardening, horticulture, photography, and floral design, the GCJ from its tours and fundraisers has donated more than $225,000 and countless hours to the Jackson community through a variety of vital projects that include volunteer work at the gardens of the Welty House, Governor’s Mansion, Greenwood Cemetery, and Mississippi Children’s Museum.

Evening Garden Party $100

Tuesday April 5 ~ 6 to 8 p.m. The home of June & Harper Stone, Greenwood Plantation, Ridgeland

(limited tickets; advanced reservations only) Fresh Cut Flowers After Hours $25

Wednesday, April 6 ~ 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. In the gardens and pool pavilion of Christie & George Walker, Eastover Food and floral designs provided by Julia Putt of Fresh Cut Catering During the evening, Jill Steenhuis, an internationally renowned Impressionist painter from the countryside of Aix-en-Provence, France, will create a painting that will be auctioned at the end of the event.

Wednesday, April 6, and Thursday, April 7 ~ 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine Ticket sales begin Tuesday, March 1. Featuring four homes and five gardens - Meadowbrook Highlands Park and ride from Covenant Presbyterian Church, 4000 Ridgewood Road, Jackson.

$20 tickets go on sale March 1 at gardenclubofjackson.com or the Everyday Gardener. All TICKETS WILL BE HELD FOR PICK-UP ON THE DAY OF THE TOUR.

(The Garden Club of Jackson tent at Covenant Presbyterian Church on the corner of Ridgewood Road and Lake Circle parking lot)

Park, Ride, and Purchase Plants!

Covenant Presbyterian Church, 4000 Ridgewood Road

(Garden guests must park at the church and take the shuttle into the Meadowbrook Highlands neighborhood. Security will be present in the church parking lot. Guests in their vehicles will not be admitted through the neighborhood gates.)

Pick up or enjoy in the courtyard at 2 Laurel Cove. Order via advanced online reservations.

(Impressionist painter Jill Steenhuis will display her art collection at this location.)

The Japanese Garden Shirley & Rick Griffin’s home and garden 3 Pierce Cove Ashley & Douglas Hindman’s home and garden 6 Rivers Creek Drive Madalyn & Steve Hindman’s home and garden 1 Pecan Tree Place Martha Jo & Greg Vance’s home and garden 10 Pecan Hollow Drive (site of GCJ members’ art sale)