{"id":70945,"date":"2003-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-master-gardeners-open-their-gardens-to-visitors-june-21-22\/"},"modified":"2003-05-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-master-gardeners-open-their-gardens-to-visitors-june-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2003\/05\/uri-master-gardeners-open-their-gardens-to-visitors-june-21-22\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Master Gardeners open their gardens to visitors June 21, 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tMedia Contact: Todd McLeish 874-7892&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; May 29, 2003 &#8212; Expert gardeners trained through the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Master Gardener program will open their gardens to the public for the first &#8220;Gardening with the Masters&#8221; tour.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the URI Master Gardener Association, the 29 private gardens scattered around the state and three public gardens on URI\u2019s Kingston campus will be open rain or shine from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 21 and from noon to 4 p.m. on June 22.  Master Gardeners will serve as guides at each site, and educational materials related to each garden\u2019s features will be available.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Six of the garden sites open for tours are in Providence County, while four are in Kent County, five in Newport County, three in Bristol County, and 14 in Washington County.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Guide books, which serve as admittance tickets and provide directions to each garden, must be purchased in advance.  From noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, the guide books can be purchased for $18 at Shartner Farms in Exeter, Lincoln Gardens in Lincoln, Hidden Gardens in Barrington, Chaves Gardens in Middletown, or at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Garden in Providence.  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the URI Cooperative Extension Education Center at 874-2900.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Contact: Todd McLeish 874-7892&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; May 29, 2003 &#8212; Expert gardeners trained through the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Master Gardener program will open their gardens to the public for the first &#8220;Gardening with the Masters&#8221; tour.&#13; Sponsored by the URI Master Gardener Association, the 29 private gardens scattered around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}