All tours will originate and end at the Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel, 1707 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. The buses for the all day garden tours will be air conditioned and have rest rooms. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. The buses for the half day campus tours do not have restrooms -- but restrooms will be available at each stop. Refreshments will be provided.

The cost of the pre conference tours is not covered in the general conference registration. The cost for the all day garden tours is $40.00. The cost for the half day campus tours is $10.00. Tour spaces will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. In the event a tour is filled or cancelled, a refund check will be issued.

Day Long Garden Tours
		Wake County Garden Tour
	8:00 am	Board bus at Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel
	8:15 am	Leave Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel
	9:00 am	Arrive Plant Delights Nursery for guided tour of gardens
	10:15 am	Tour ends. Plant shopping & self tour begins
	11:00 am	Leave Plant Delights Nursery for Stevens' Garden
	11:30 am	Arrive at Stevens' Garden on Lochmere Lake, Cary, NC.
	12:00 pm	Box lunch served in private garden
	12:45 pm	Leave for tour of private garden of Bill and Beverly Sherwood
	12:55 pm	Arrive at Sherwood's home - Magnolia Woods, Cary, NC
	1:30 pm	Leave Sherwood's home
	1:50 pm	Arrive at State Farmers Market for 2:00 pm Market Tour and Shopping
	3:30 pm	Leave State Farmers Market
	4:00 pm	Arrive at NC State Fairgrounds - Tour MGV Water Wise Garden
	4:30 pm	Leave State Farmers Market
	5:00 pm	Bus back to Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel

	Plant Delights Nursery: Its mission is to offer the best, newest and the strangest garden-worthy perennials to gardeners. Owner, Tony Avent, travels around the world collecting seeds and samples of new plants to trial before introducing them into the nursery trade. Stroll the 5 acre display garden and leave with some new plants to try at home.
	Stevens' Garden: Lakeside Paradise. The sloped front lawn draws you down into a formal symmetrical brick courtyard perfumed with standard roses and clematis. Shaped boxwoods, topiaries and teak benches lend an English touch. Curved brick pathways lead to the backyard gardens, gazebo and lakeside dock. White swans, turtles and wildlife abounds. A large, high deck affords a clear view of the lake, the gardens and the fieldstone water garden below. It is a garden of serenity, surprise and pure joy.
	Sherwood's Garden: Terraced Treasure. Situated on a challenging hillside, the owner built low retaining walled terraces using broken concrete salvaged from damaged driveways after Hurricane Fran. The result is an amazing series of paths winding through the backyard. Tall, tight Spartan Junipers punctuate the fence line, Oriental and Arabian water elements capture the imagination and perennial trees, plants, shrubs and bulbs harmonize to create a garden of great strength and artistic style.
	State Farmers Market. One of five Farmers Markets owned by the State of North Carolina. The market sells over 300 different items and offers products for both the large wholesale buyer and individual consumer. Over 35,000 spaces are rented to growers for sales of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables, plants, Christmas trees and crafts. Open: M-Sat. 5am-6pm, Sun. 8am-6pm
	Water-Wise Garden - NC State Fair Grounds Designed and installed by Wake County Master Gardeners, this garden demonstrates the diverse perennials that thrive without irrigation. It's a teaching garden that amazes those who pass through.

Durham/Orange County Garden Tour FULL - Can Not Accept More
	7:15 am	Bus begins loading
	7:30 am	Leave Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel
	8:30 am	Arrive Montrose Gardens - Hillsborough
	10:00 am	Leave Montrose Gardens
	10:20 am	Arrive at Duke Gardens, Durham
	11:50 am	Box lunch
	12:30 pm	Leave Duke Gardens
	1:00 pm	Arrive Witherspoon Rose Garden
	1:30 pm	Leave Witherspoon Rose Garden
	2:00 pm	Arrive NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill
	3:30 pm	Leave NC Botanical Garden
	4:15 pm	Arrive State Fair Grounds - Wake County MGV Water-Wise Garden
	5:00 pm	Arrive at Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel

	Montrose Garden in Hillsborough is a nationally known garden begun in the 19th century by NC Governor and Mrs. William Alexander Graham. Currently owned by Nancy and Crauford Goodwin, it is a visual wonder of specimen trees, rock gardens, woodlands, sunny perennial borders and several 19th century outbuildings.
	Sarah P. Duke Gardens occupies 55 acres in the heart of Durham's Duke University West Campus. It is recognized as one of the premier public gardens in the United States, renowned both for landscape design and the quality of horticulture, each year attracting more than 300,000 visitors from all over the world.
	Witherspoon Rose Culture Garden. With more than five decades in rose care and sales, they know roses. Their display garden will be at its peak in October.
	NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill has an emphasis on native plant conservation and education. The tour will highlight habitat gardens, perennial borders and the amazing carnivorous (pitcher) plant collection.
	Water-Wise Garden - NC State Fair Grounds Designed and installed by Wake County Master Gardeners, this garden demonstrates the diverse perennials that thrive without irrigation. It's a teaching garden that amazes those who pass through.

For additional information on the garden tours contact Jere Stevens: lochwood@mindspring.com

Half Day Tours
Campus A
Visit the Horticultural Science teaching greenhouses, the Phytotron, and the NC Carolina Wildlife Commission. The Horticultural Science greenhouses are used for teaching students and includes a conservatory. The Phytotron is used extensively for research in its climate controlled growth chambers. The Wildlife Commission is located on Centennial Campus. It is the greenest building on campus, with a series of rain gardens and interactive wildlife exhibits. You will be able to shop in the Wildlife Gift Shop.
Campus B - Has been Cancelled

For additional information on the campus tours contact Erv Evans: Erv_Evans@ncsu.edu