The 34th Annual

Pocket Gardens of Portsmouth Tour

will be held

Friday, September 8 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Saturday, September 9 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

We are excited to switch things up with our annual tour and share late summer gardens this year. With the abundance that comes at the height of the growing season - annuals and vegetable gardens are bursting!

This year's tour touts a lovely mix of nine professional and amateur designed and maintained gardens found in the Lafayette Park neighborhood (Middle, Aldrich, and Spinney). Also included are the Loughlin Preserve, ample parking, and the return of garden educators including John Forti, author of The Heirloom Gardener: Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World and Susan Pike, nature writer for the Portsmouth Herald.

Along with the tour you can connect with the Portsmouth NH 400 celebration as we share the forestry of the Abenaki, the agriculture of the 18th century, annual June celebrations of African-Americans, the Subsistence Garden Program of the Great Depression, and the growth of a neighborhood and its gardens.

$25 early-bird tickets are on sale

from August 2 - September 7

here and at these retailers:

Churchill’s Garden Center, Eldredge Lumber of York, Gardener's Supply at Rolling Green, River Run Bookstore,

and Wentworth Greenhouse

Only 1000 tickets are available for this event. If online tickets are sold out check back regularly as we will release tickets from retail venues if possible. Follow us on Facebook for update of day-of tickets.

Thanks to our sponsors:

Wentworth Gardens

Susan Treleaven, of Keller Williams

Piscataqua Landscaping

Liz Levy-Pruyn, of ReMax Shoreline