Venue: Downtown Blacksburg, Blacksburg
Date: Saturday, July 6, 2013
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements, Charity
Cost:
Advance Tickets: $12.00
Day of the Tour: $15.00
Day of the Tour: $15.00
Description:
The 18th Annual New River Valley Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, July 6th from 9 am - 5 pm in private and public gardens throughout Blacksburg and Christiansburg.
The self-driven tour showcases eight innovative, specialty and simply beautiful private gardens in the New River Valley throughout the Blacksburg and Christiansburg area.
For a map of the gardens in the tour, visit: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=209006119208203171165.0004b17fced233f9badab&msa=0&ll=37.196971,-80.428505&spn=0.284964,0.605278
In addition, The Oaks Victorian Inn will be offering live music during their stop along the Garden Tour. From 10 am - 12 pm, the Governor's School for the Arts Student Chamber music group will perform in the garden. And from 1-4 pm, Dr. Christopher White, professor and director of the Radford University Jazz Ensemble and his Jazz Trio will be performing.
Advance tickets are $12 per person and $15 the day of the tour. Day of the tour tickets can be purchased at any of the gardens along the tour. Advance tickets can be purchased at various local libraries including:
• Blacksburg Public Library — Tel. 540-552-8246, 200 Miller St, Blacksburg, VA
• Christiansburg Public Library — Tel. 540-382-6965, 125 Sheltman Ave, Christiansburg, VA
• Meadowbrook Public Library — Tel. 540-268-1964, 267 Alleghany Springs Rd, Shawsville, VA
• Jesse Peterman Memorial Library (Floyd) — Tel. 540-745-2947, 321 Main St, Floyd, VA
• Radford Public Library — Tel. 540-731-3621, 30 W. Main St, Radford, VA
• Roanoke South County Library — Tel. 540-772-7507, 6303 Merriman Rd, Roanoke, VA
• Salem Public Library — Tel. 540-375-3089, 28 East Main St, Salem, VA
Show your ticket at these restaurants and cafes for 10% off on the day of the tour:
- Our Daily Bread Bakery & Cafe, Blacksburg
- Lefty's Main Street Grill, Blacksburg
- 622 North, Blacksburg
- Mill Mountain Coffee and Tea, Blacksburg
The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library with the cooperation of the New River Valley Master Gardeners' Association. Proceeds benefit the local Montgomery-Floyd Regional library.
For more information, visit: http://www.mfrlfriends.org/gardentour.html or https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-River-Valley-Garden-Tour/88555038491 or e-mail: nrv.gardentour.mail@gmail.com.
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