Garden City Festival returns to Sacred Heart next weekend

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The 2023 Backyard Metropolis Competition returns to downtown Augusta and can embody two full days of pleasure subsequent weekend.

The pageant will likely be held on the Sacred Coronary heart and can function two celebrated soirees, backyard and floral reveals, participating audio system, a Vendor Market, new pop-up workshops, family-fun Seedling Saturday, and personal backyard excursions.

The pageant has not too long ago been famous as one of many Prime 20 Festivals in Georgia.

All pageant proceeds profit the applications and ongoing preservation of Sacred Coronary heart Cultural Heart.

Thursday Evening Viewing Celebration

April 20 – from 6 to 9 p.m.

The night premiere of the Competition will function delectable delicacies, musical and creative leisure, and the primary glimpse of extraordinary gardens and floral reveals, distinctive vegetation and backyard equipment within the Backyard Market, and a silent public sale of domestically sourced gadgets.

Backyard Competition hours, two-day tickets

April 21, 22 – from 9 a.m. to five p.m.

$25 Competition and Backyard Tour (After April 20, tickets can be found for $30 on the gate)

$10 Competition-only – (Does NOT embrace Backyard Tour. After April 20, tickets out there for $15 on the gate)

Tour of Gardens

April 21, 22 – from 11 a.m. to five p.m.

This program presents tour individuals the chance to go to distinctive and galvanizing non-public gardens, not typically open to the general public. Excursions are all through Augusta together with historic Summerville.

Friday Evening Backyard Social

April 21 – from 5 to 9 p.m.

Nice toe-tapping music by native band, The Mason Jars, and a catered Pot Smoker BBQ dinner welcome visitors to take pleasure in an off-the-cuff get together within the vibrant Sacred Coronary heart courtyard backyard. Earlier than dinner, go to the reveals and store our distinctive Competition distributors. A separate ticket is required.

Speaker Collection

April 21 – at 9:30 and 11 a.m.

April 22 – at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

Hear specialists throughout this sequence together with Allen Armitage, Judy Kirkland, Jennifer Millwood, Elliot Value, and Ransom Schwerzler.

Seedling Saturday

April 22 – from 9 a.m. to five p.m.

Households can expertise and find out about gardening and pollinators with hands-on actions and crafts. Youths 12 and beneath are free with a ticketed grownup.

Competition Pop-Up Demos

April 21, 22 – scheduled all through each days

Take pleasure in a choice of mini-workshops led by distributors and native visitors that includes distinctive backyard, dwelling, and life-style themes.

Birdhouse Themed-Design Contest

Friday and Saturday, vote for and bid in your favourite birdhouse-themed floral design! Choices will likely be positioned all through the Sacred Coronary heart Competition space. Take dwelling a style of springtime to thrill you and your neighborhood birds.

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