Get ideas for your home garden at these 19 spring garden tours around L.A.

Scattered orangish California poppies, California Lilac with agleam bluish blooms, and hummingbird sage with acheronian rose-lilac-colored flowers spontaneously archer america what we already know: Spring has arrived.

Southern California, particularly Los Angeles, has galore breathtaking botanical gardens and wildflower-lined hiking trails. But it’s besides breathtaking to sojourn backstage location gardens that are seldom unfastened to the nationalist and find inspiration adjacent if you don’t person abstraction for a plot astatine home.

This year’s outpouring plot tours see a sojourn to a historical Midcentury Modern location designed by Buff, Straub and Hensman, implicit with a stream moving done the spot arsenic portion of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Tour. You tin besides cheque retired a autochthonal plot astatine a Long Beach simple schoolhouse that is usually closed to visitors, oregon spot however a young mates utilized a $5,000 turf rebate from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to alteration their Inglewood gait during the Theodore Payne Foundation’s two-day Native Plant Garden Tour.

Whether you emotion gardening oregon simply bask beauteous landscapes and gathering different works lovers, these tours connection plentifulness of ideas you tin usage agelong aft your visit. From autochthonal plants to roseate gardens, present are this spring’s section plot tours.

Blooming California poppies punctual america that outpouring is here.

(Stella Kalinina / For The Times)

March 29
The Poppy Day Garden Tour raises wealth for the South Coast section of the California Native Plant Society. Visit 10 autochthonal works gardens crossed the South Bay that enactment wildlife and assistance prevention water. The circuit runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets outgo $15 successful beforehand oregon $20 astatine the door, if available. Children and teens nether property 18 get successful free. For tickets and much information, sojourn cnps-south-coast.square.site.

The Creative Arts Group’s Art of the Garden Tour features self-guided visits to 5 gardens successful Pasadena, Altadena and La Cañada Flintridge from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets outgo $45 successful beforehand oregon $50 connected the time of the event. This circuit is the nonprofit’s biggest fundraiser of the year, supporting arts programs, exhibitions and classes for children and adults. Please enactment that photography, pets and children nether property 12 are not allowed connected the tours. You tin besides halt by the Creative Arts Group Gallery astatine 108 N. Baldwin Ave. successful Sierra Madre to bargain tickets successful idiosyncratic and spot artwork from much than 25 section artists. For much information, sojourn creativeartsgroup.org.

Sarah Lariviere and her hubby removed their beforehand and backmost lawns successful Burbank, replacing them with drought-friendly plants. Their plot volition beryllium unfastened to the nationalist April 12 arsenic portion of the Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour.

(Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

April 11-12
Theodore Payne Foundation’s Native Plant Garden Tour: Habitats That Heal is a showcase for 42 gardens crossed Los Angeles, each with astatine slightest fractional autochthonal plants. The self-guided circuit runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. connected some days. On April 11, you tin sojourn 20 gardens successful neighborhoods successful Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Shadow Hills, Tujunga, Montrose, Burbank, Glendale, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, South Pasadena, Pasadena and Altadena. On April 12, the circuit covers gardens successful Santa Monica, Venice, West L.A., Del Rey, Baldwin Hills, Mid-City, Inglewood, South L.A., Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Glassell Park, Highland Park, Mt. Washington, El Sereno and Alhambra. Tickets outgo $55, oregon $50 for members, and children nether property 16 are free. If you bargain a ticket, you’ll person a guidebook successful the mail, which besides serves arsenic your ticket. Starting March 26, tickets and maps are lone disposable for acquisition successful idiosyncratic astatine the instauration bureau successful Sun Valley from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday done Saturday. The bureau is closed connected Sunday and Monday. For much information, sojourn nativeplantgardentour.org.

California Native Plant Society’s San Diego Native Garden Tour is simply a showcase of 31 backstage gardens crossed the city, including the CNPS San Diego Native Plant Teaching Garden, Southwestern College Botanical Garden, Paradise Hills and Native West Nursery. Each plot successful the self-guided circuit uses astatine slightest 60% California autochthonal plants, demonstrating however these gardens support section biodiversity. The circuit is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $45; children property 17 and nether are free. Will telephone locations and instructions volition beryllium emailed aft summons acquisition astatine eventbrite.com.

A “Welcome to California” motion is seen astatine Prisk Native Plant Garden successful Long Beach.

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

April 12 and 19
The Prisk Native Plant Garden Open House is celebrating its 30th twelvemonth with an yearly circuit of the garden, which is usually closed to the public. You tin sojourn from 1 to 4 p.m. some days astatine William F. Prisk Elementary School, 2375 Fanwood Ave. successful Long Beach. The plot is located down the schoolhouse astatine East Los Arcos Street and Albury Avenue. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. For much information, sojourn facebook.com/prisknativegarden.

April 19
The Garden Conservancy Pasadena Open Days Tour welcomes you to sojourn 4 backstage gardens astatine historical homes. You tin spot Buff, Straub and Hensman’s Midcentury Modern Norton House, the 1916 Spanish Revival-style location called Mi Sueño del Sur, a Southern California Arts and Crafts garden, and the roseate gardens of a historical Pasadena property from the 1900s. The circuit runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets outgo $10 per plot and are disposable online only. Children ages 12 and nether tin articulation the circuit for escaped with an adult. For much information, sojourn gardenconservancy.org.

Desert gardens with autochthonal plants astatine the Mojave Land Trust successful Joshua Tree.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

The Morongo Basin Conservation Assn. is hosting its 15th Annual Desert-Wise Landscape Tour. This self-guided lawsuit runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and features 4 backstage gardens successful Pioneertown and Yucca Valley, on with 3 objection gardens successful Joshua Tree. Tickets outgo $25, oregon $20 for members. You tin find tickets and much accusation connected the MBCA website, mbconservation.org. On the time of the tour, registration volition lone beryllium disposable astatine the Mojave Desert Land Trust successful Joshua Tree.

April 25
Habitat Garden Tours astatine Caroline Park and Ryan Bonaminio Park, the Riverside-San Bernardino Chapter of the California Native Plant Society is offering escaped tours of 2 ample autochthonal works gardens wrong metropolis parks successful Redlands and Riverside. Morning tours of the 16-acre Caroline Park successful Redlands, which is dedicated to California autochthonal plants, volition beryllium held astatine 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Park adjacent the country of Mariposa Drive and Poppy Road, past participate the parkland utilizing the way to the near of the Caroline Park sign. Meet astatine the kiosk upon arrival. Afternoon tours astatine Ryan Bonaminio Park successful Riverside, which features restored autochthonal plants from section floodplains and upland areas that enactment pollinators, volition beryllium held astatine 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Park connected the westbound extremity of the parking batch to entree the decomposed granite way starring to the 1.17-acre situation garden. The tours are free, and you are invited to articulation astatine immoderate scheduled time. For much information, visit: chapters.cnps.org/riversidesanbernardino.

April 25-26
The Floral Park Home & Garden Tour successful North Santa Ana invites you to research historical homes and gardens from the 1920s to the 1950s from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. connected some days. Along with the tours, you tin bask the Street of Treasures Market, illustration nutrient from section restaurants and cheque retired a car show. All proceeds assistance money assemblage scholarships and enactment nonprofit organizations. Tickets outgo $45 if you bargain them by April 20, oregon $50 astatine the door. For much details, sojourn floralparkhometour.com.

The Riverside Community Flower Show & Garden Tour: Garden Party features self-guided tours of six section gardens, with maestro gardeners connected manus to reply your questions. Tours are unfastened from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. some days. You tin besides sojourn a escaped angiosperm amusement astatine the Riverside Elks Lodge, 6166 Brockton Ave., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the plot circuit is $10, and children nether 16 get successful free. For much information, sojourn riversideflowershow.com.

Bungalow Heaven, a tree-lined vicinity successful Pasadena, is known for its important postulation of Craftsman bungalows.

(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

April 26
The 35th Annual Bungalow Heaven Home Tour features self-guided walks done 8 homes, with unpaid docents acceptable to stock each home’s past and architecture. Although the absorption is connected architecture, galore of the homes successful the landmark territory person beauteous landscaped backyards that guests are invited to sojourn and admire. McDonald Park volition beryllium lively each time with music, a soundless auction of unsocial items, homemade cookies and section nutrient trucks for lunch. It’s from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Advance tickets are $25 astatine bungalowheaven.org and disposable until April 25 astatine 8 p.m. Tickets connected the time of the circuit are $30 and tin beryllium bought astatine McDonald Park, 1000 E. Mountain St., starting astatine 9:40 a.m. Part of the proceeds volition spell to San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity to assistance those affected by the Eaton fire.

May 2
The Laguna Beach Garden Club’s 20th Gate & Garden Tour starts astatine the Bruce Scherer Waterwise and Fire-Safe Gardens, located astatine 306 3rd St. successful Laguna Beach. Special buses volition instrumentality summons holders to sojourn respective section gardens. You tin bargain Mexican nutrient and artisanal margaritas and bask escaped homemade baked goods. Artists volition beryllium coating successful immoderate of the gardens, and if you deterioration a festive plot enactment hat, you’ll beryllium entered successful the club’s chapeau contest. Proceeds assistance money schoolhouse gardens, section scholarships and assemblage projects. The tours tally from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please enactment that children are not allowed. Timed-entry tickets are $65.87 online, which includes introduction betwixt 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., positive 1 nutrient point and 1 drink. Find tickets astatine eventbrite.com.

A invited motion astatine 1 of the garden’s successful past year’s Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour.

(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

May 2-3
The Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour: Real Gardens by Real People features self-guided tours of 34 gardens spanning Long Beach to San Clemente from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. some days. The circuit is free, but donation jars volition beryllium acceptable retired astatine the gardens to enactment the Sheepfold, a situation halfway for women and children that has agelong been the foundation’s yearly circuit beneficiary. For much information, sojourn heardsgardentour.com.

May 3
Inspired Garden Artistry invites you to the Blooms with a View Garden Tour, featuring 10 backstage location gardens successful View Park, Windsor Hills, Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills. The circuit runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. You tin besides bask the escaped Garden & Community Resource Expo astatine Ladera Park’s southbound entrance, 4750 W. 62nd St. during the aforesaid hours. The expo offers artisans, scenery architects, nurseries, section assemblage services, nutrient trucks, giveaways, a works swap and amusive activities for families. Tickets are $30 online until April 15 and $35 from April 16 done May 3. Kids ages 12 and nether participate free. To larn more, sojourn inspiredgardenartistry.com.

Join the 28th Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Assn. & Hospice Camarillo Garden Tour and research 4 beauteous Camarillo gardens from noon to 4 p.m. Artists from the Pastel Society of the Gold Coast volition beryllium giving demonstrations successful astatine slightest 2 of the gardens. Tickets are $30 online, and each proceeds enactment the association’s hospice programme successful Camarillo. For much information, sojourn lmvna.org/gardentour.

May 9
The West Floral Park and Jack Fisher Park neighborhoods are hosting the 19th annual Open Garden Day, featuring tours of 2 tree-lined areas with vintage homes successful North Santa Ana. Enjoy unrecorded music, creation displays, plot talks and demonstrations, a classical car display, and escaped bottled h2o astatine the gardens. In the morning, you tin bargain java and doughnuts, and vendors volition connection nutrient and plot products from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours tally from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a shuttle work betwixt the 2 circuit loops to assistance trim hold times. Tickets spell connected merchantability online starting March 20 for $20, oregon you tin bargain them for $25 connected the time of the lawsuit astatine West Santa Clara and North Westwood avenues successful Santa Ana. For much information, sojourn opengardenday.com.

In 2024, visitors explored the plot of Dennis Mudd, the creator of Calscape, during the San Diego Native Garden Tour hosted by the California Native Plant Society.

(Silke Gathmann)

May 14
The 29th Newport Harbor Home & Garden Tour, hosted by Barclay Butera Interior Design, invites guests to research six locally designed homes and gardens adjacent Newport Harbor High School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The time begins with a greeting reception astatine 9 a.m., followed by a luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and ends with a reception astatine Barclay Butera from 2 to 5 p.m. This lawsuit raises funds for the Newport Harbor Educational Foundation to assistance enactment world programs and module astatine Newport Harbor High School. Tickets are disposable online for $125 until April 24 astatine newportharborhometour.com.

May 16
The San Clemente Garden Club’s 2026 Garden Tour offers self-guided tours and unrecorded amusement astatine respective section gardens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. You tin bargain tickets online up of clip for $40 each, oregon $35 each if you bargain 4 oregon more. Tickets connected the time of the lawsuit are $50. All proceeds assistance money the club’s assemblage scholarships, inferior gardeners programs, section conservation groups and civic beautification projects successful San Clemente. For much information, sojourn sanclementegardenclub.com.

A Matilija poppy grows successful West Hills.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

May 17
The Rossmoor Woman’s Club is hosting its 22nd Garden Tour, offering self-guided visits to 5 oregon six backstage gardens successful the Rossmoor-Los Alamitos country of Orange County, conscionable northbound of Seal Beach. The circuit runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There volition besides beryllium a marketplace with vendors and refreshments. Tickets outgo $20 and volition beryllium disposable online successful April oregon astatine the club’s outdoor marketplace astatine the Farmers & Merchants Bank, 12535 Seal Beach Blvd., connected the time of the tour. All proceeds spell to section charities and assemblage scholarships for Los Alamitos High School students. For much information, sojourn rossmoorwomansclub.org.