It doesn't look like WBUR's The ARTery has published a guide to this season's garden tours, but I found a listing at Yankee magazine that you might want to reference. I'll be headed back to The Newport Secret Garden Tour again, running June 17-19 this spring. I'd like to think, in these many years sampling self-guided tours like the one in Newport, that I would be advancing from my idjit gardener status. Possibly, but perhaps there's a bit of the idjit gardener in even the most experienced gardener, who is open to how the garden might surprise, delight, and inform them. Happy touring.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast