Master Gardener Society of Oakland County, MI

Trips & Tours – Team Leader: Sandie Parrott

2012 Bus Trip will be to Philadelphia!

Four garden-filled days visiting Longwood, Chanticleer, Winterthur and much more -
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Past Tours

2011 Bruce Peninsula - Canada. Private rural gardens, waterfalls and wine. July 15-17
2010 Pittsburgh, PA. - Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, Phipp’s Conservatory, local celebrity Doug Oster’s garden and neighbor’s Japanese garden, Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation, Sandhill Berry Farm and Greendance Winery, Duquesne Incline, Stan Hywet Gardens, Fellows-Riverside Gardens, National Aviary, Rodef Shalom Biblical Garden and Naturally Native Nursery.
2009 Franklin Park Conservatory, Park of Roses, Topiary Garden, German Village Home and Garden Tour and Schedel Arboretum - Ohio
2008 Oakhurst Gardens, Carolee’s Herb Garden, Shipshewana, Amish Acres and Intl. Friendship Garden – Indiana
2007 Cantiny Gardens, Chicago Botanical Garden, Morton Arboretum, Evanstan and Fernwood Botanical Gardens - Illinois & Michigan
2006 Shakespeare Gardens, Stratford; Toronto Islands Cottage Gardens, Laura Grant's Garden and Blue Man Group - Toronto
2005 Frederik Meijer Gardens, Dow Gardens, Grand Hotel Gardens and Lilac Festival Mackinac Island – Michigan
2004 Holden Arboretum, Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Toledo Botanical Gardens and Put-in-Bay – Ohio
2003 Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton and Niagara Falls - Ontario, Canada
2002 Chicago Botanical Garden, Hidden Lake Gardens and Shipshewana - Illinois and Indiana
2001 Fernwood Botanical Garden and Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm – Michigan

Included in each trip:

• Deluxe motor coach transportation, hotel, most meals, all entrances, guided tours
• Winery visit and tasting (if you want)
• Surprise private gardens
• FABULOUS PRIZES for garden related games!
• Master Gardener Education credits - usually greater than the annual requirement!
• Entrances to the gardens before the general public
• Lots of places to shop!
• Goodie Bag FULL of wonderful surprises from garden suppliers
• Time to explore on your own
• Meet other wonderful and fun gardeners
• Economical price for everything that is included
• Zany (but strict…got to be on time!) tour guide…is me, Sandie Parrott!

Fallingwater – Very famous house by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
– now called ecological architecture because the site isn’t disturbed,
the house lives with the site and the view is the wall art.

Funny glasses and crazy noses can’t hide the true garden lovers on the 2009 trip to
Columbus, Ohio. Far left is our fearless driver Jim Truscott.

Topiary Park in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Georges Seurat's painting,
"A Sunday afternoon on the Isle La Grand Jatte" depicted in topiary.

An outside room in one of the gardens on the
German Town Home and Garden Tour in Columbus, Ohio

2007 Chicago Trip
Donna and Jerry Romanowski playing the draw on your head game!	Rick Moersch, Owner of the Round Barn Winery and Distillery gives the group a talk about growing grapes for wine.	This one is...A lovely example of an English style dovecote at Fernwood Botanical Garden, Niles
2006 Toronto Trip
click images to enlarge	Small section of the beautiful Rock Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario	2006 Toronto Trippers enjoyed the pond and lovely plantings of Laura Grant's garden!
Arthur Meighen garden in front of the Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario	Sandie Parrott and Celeste Yoskovich with a Blue Man!	Florence Reume entertained everyone, including the Blue Man Group with her deadpan humor!
2005 Michigan Trip
2004 Cleveland Ohio Trip

The Children's Garden

Herb Circles