Our 19th Annual Ojai Valley Garden Tour will be on Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and we will have 5 private gardens across the valley ready for viewing. From the East End to Oak View we have gardens that will impress you with their simplicity, their solutions for planting in problem areas, and their  use of water-wise plantings. Of course the City of Ojai Demonstration Garden will be one of the stops on our tour again this year. Also again this year, the Tour falls on Mother's Day Weekend. With our normal spring weather, this will be a great day to spend with your mother taking a leisurly stroll through local gardens--and why not make it a multi-generational affair?

Tickets are $20 until noon on May 10, and $25 each thereafter. You can purchase tickets at the Chamber offcie at 206 N. Signal St., Suite P (enter off Aliso St.), or online at Chamber website or at Flora Gardens at 245 Old Baldwin Road on Hwy. 150. Flora Gardens is open daily from 8 - 5. Garden Tour tickets include a wristband and a map/brochure with descriptions of the gardens and a list of the sponsors who support this event.

Our Primary Garden Tour Sponsors are: Australian Native Plants, Casitas Municipal Water District, Flora Gardens, Lisa Phelps Irrigation & Landscaping, Ojai Community Bank, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, Troop Real Estate and Vintage Production CA, LLC.

The Garden Tour is our second fundraiser of the year and helps us continue to manage the Ojai Visitors Bureau, and advocate for legislative solutions to issue that concern our members at the local, regional, state and federal levels. The Ojai Valley Chamber of Commerce is a pro-business, member supported non-profit (501, C-6) organization, and it is our mission to represent the interests and support the economic vitality of our members.