Strolling through private gardens, exchanging ideas with other gardeners, getting some new inspiration, or just admiring how others create beautiful gardens in a wide variety of settings—all of this is possible with the project “Offener Garten” (open garden). Members of seven Swiss gardening and plant associations and the association Pro Igel (Pro-Hedgehog) open their garden gates and invite you for a visit on these weekends. More than 300 gardens all over Switzerland participate in this event, including 30 in the Basel area. To find a participating garden, go to their (German-only) website and click on the region of interest until you see the individual gardens on the map. A click on a specific garden will give you a description of the garden with some photos, their opening hours, address, contact information, and directions. Note that some of the gardens are also open at other times of the year; click on “Offene Gärten” to see a list of upcoming dates or to search for a specific location. Participating gardens decide for themselves which days they open their gardens. In doing so, they create spaces for encounters and enrichment, places where the gardening community can network and exchange ideas. Many are particularly open on two weekends a year, this year on the weekends of June 14/15 and August 23/24.
Attendance is free.

Website
bioterra.ch/offenergarten

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