Cape Fear Garden Club holding 2024 Azalea Garden Tour

Previous Cape Fear Garden Club Azalea Garden Tour (Photo: Sarah Johnson/WWAY)

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The Cape Fear Garden Club’s 2024 Azalea Garden Tour is returning in April.

The event will feature 10 private gardens and Airlie Gardens, and take place from April 5th through 7th.

The Tour kicks off at Cameron Art Museum, where the Ribbon Cutting and Queen’s Garden Party will begin on April 5th at 9:30 a.m, with our own Jeff Rivenbark as the emcee.

The Garden Club’s famous homemade cookies and light refreshments will be served following the ceremony.

Plein air artists will be present in the gardens all weekend and their paintings will be available for purchase on April 7th. The Azalea Ambassadors, young ladies and gentlemen from New Hanover County high schools, will meet and greet guests at each garden.

Azalea Garden Tour tickets will be available in late January for purchase online and at locations to be listed HERE.

Tickets are $50 and children under 12 are free. Proceeds from the Tour are returned to the local community each year, totaling over $1.4 million since 2003.

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