Spring Garden Tour 2025
”Celebrate the Garden District: A Designer Porch and Garden Stroll”
Sunday, May 18, 2025
1:00-4:00pm
Join the friends of Hilltop for an afternoon walk through the Garden District neighborhood,
where you’ll see mature live oak trees lining the boulevards and feel as if the whole
area is one large garden tour!
One of the oldest neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, The Garden District is in the Mid-City
area between Government Street and Park Boulevard and made up of a conglomerate of
three historic districts defined by the Louisiana National Register of Historic Places:
Roseland Terrace, Drehr Place, and Kleinert Terrace.
The tour will feature six beautiful, quaint gardens and porches. As part of the tour,
visit the pollinator gardens dotted along Camellia Avenue, and learn more on how you
can beautify your street corners. The homes on tour vary between grand and upscale
or quaint and modest, each connected by sidewalks and alleys, and the owners have
continued to uphold and maintain the neighborhood’s beauty and appeal through the
upkeep of their own garden spaces. We hope you leave inspired with ideas on how you
can beautify the smaller spaces surrounding your home.
Featured Gardens
Ginger Ford Pollinator Gardens
Camellia Avenue Street Corners
Greta and Ray Corona
2175 Myrtle Avenue
Designer: Tribe Market
Whitney Hoffman and Engin Sayal
1959 Tulip Street
Designer: Baton Rouge Succulent Company
Music: Dave Randall
Diane Garrett
2236 Tulip Street
Designer: Allyson Hicks Design Consulting
Vicki and Dennis Swain
803 Camellia Avenue
Music: Fretless Yard Girls
Megan and Aaron Sheehan-Dean
615 Camellia Avenue
Music: Brian Babin
Cindy and Steve Tiek
2355 Olive Street
Designer: TIEK BYDAY
Important Details for the Tour
- Day-of registrations will be accepted at any garden. Cash, checks and credit cards accepted.
- You may visit the gardens in any order. (Click on button to right to view map.)
- Map will be on display at each garden for viewing.
- Please sign in and pick up your ticket at the first garden you visit.
- At each subsequent garden, please present your ticket at the registration table before entering the garden.
- Street parking is available. (See map for locations.)
- Golf cart transportation will be available. Please wait on the curb of the garden to be picked up.
