The Gentian Garden Club is sponsoring the "Gentian Gems" Garden Tour on Saturday, June 2, 2012, from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., rain or shine. The [self-guided] "Gentian Gems" Garden Tour includes ten private gardens designed, planted, and maintained by their owners. These gardens feature glass gem garden sculptures created especially for the tour by noted local glass artist Neal Drobnis. These unique garden ornaments will be for sale that day. The event is also an opportunity to view the Gentian Wildflower Garden in historic North Scituate. "Gentian Gems" visitors will enjoy spectacular perennial borders, wildflower gardens, herb gardens, vegetable gardens, woodland gardens, and beautifully landscaped properties.

Tickets for the "Gentian Gems" Garden Tour are $25 per person and include a boxed lunch. Boxed lunches must be ordered by May 15, 2012. Tickets for the garden tour only are $20 per person. To purchase tickets, checks payable to the Gentian Garden Club should be mailed to Alyce Peddar, P.O. Box 464, Chepachet, RI 02814. To receive tickets by return mail, a self-addressed, stamped business envelope must be included at the time of payment. Tickets, boxed lunches, and tour maps may be picked up on the day of the tour at the North Scituate Community House, located at 546 West Greenville Road. Tickets can also be purchased at the North Scituate Community House on the day of the tour for $25 without lunch. For more information, call 401-934-9212 or 401-568-3345.