For immediate release may 21, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 2014

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POINT ROBERTS GARDEN TOUR 13 SET FOR JULY 20
Point Roberts, WA….The Point Roberts Garden Club has announced that the 13^th Point Roberts Garden Tour will take place on Sunday, July 20, 2014. The tour, which is self-guided, will take place between 10:00am and 4:00pm and includes tea and home baked goods from 1pm to 4pm at Point Roberts Community Center on Gulf Road.
This year, there will be eight unique gardens to visit. They include a whimsical garden made for strolling and bird watching, a private park with a forest backdrop, a community co-op vegetable garden, a garden with 185 different types of roses, a water’s edge secret garden and more.
Now that this event is bi-annual, this year’s tour has been eagerly awaited by visitors and locals, alike. Ticket prices have been held at $15 (US or CDN) per person. Advance tickets are available at the Blue Heron Gallery and Nielson’s Home Building Center in Point Roberts, or Harris Nursery in Ladner, B.C. Visitors are reminded that a passport or enhanced drivers license is required to cross the border.
On the day of the Tour, tickets will only be available up until 2 pm at 79 Tyee Drive, on the right, shortly after crossing the border into Point Roberts, at the Blue Heron Gallery, 1360 Gulf Road, and at Nielson’s Home Building Center on Tyee Drive. No tickets will be sold after 2 pm in order to give visitors enough time to tour the gardens.
Each ticket includes a map of Point Roberts clearly marked with the locations of the tour gardens, the afternoon tea, and restaurants for those who wish to have lunch.
More information about the tour is available on the Garden Club’s website:

www.pointrobertsgardenclub.org and on its Facebook page.

Directions:
Point Roberts, WA, is a peninsula located due South of Tsawwassen, B.C. From

Highway 99, turn West onto Highway 17, and then left onto 56^th Street and follow the road until it ends at the border. From the Island Ferries, take Highway 17 East, turn

right on 56^th Street and continue to the border.
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