2025 Frontenac Garden Tour Completed
The Frontenac Garden Tour Continues to Bloom
Seven of the most beautiful gardens in Frontenac were featured on June 21, 2025, at the Frontenac Garden Tour. In its fourth year, the Tour has continued to double in visitors each year, with some guests attending multiple events.
This year’s Tour showcased the incredible variety of plant material that will thrive in Missouri’s ideal growing climate. The participating homeowners displayed stately maples, oaks, magnolias, and evergreens with a range of dogwoods, redbuds, hollies, and boxwoods; filling in with hostas, ferns, azaleas, every kind of hydrangea, and showy grasses.
Not only did visitors walk through incredible gardens, they were able to compare notes and swap stories with the homeowners and landscape partners on achieving the best results in their own gardens.
The 2025 Frontenac Garden Tour was hosted by the Frontenac Garden Club and sponsored by Gardens of Grace, LLC, Frisella Landscape Group, Poynter Landscape, and St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles. The Tour also received support from the Missouri Botanical Garden and Mercy Conference and Retreat Center.
The 2025 Frontenac Garden Tour would not have been possible without the vision and hard work of the volunteers and participating homeowners: Kin and Carol Watkins of Stonington, Juan and Maria Carden of Tregaron, John and Kim McCurdy of Lynnbrook, Tom and Peggy Phillips of Portland, Joe and Cara Reinberg of Hermitage Hill Ln., Josh and Laura Reichman of Ballantrae, and Deck and Logan Slone of Fox Run.
Take a look back at the full line-up of Garden Descriptions from our seven unique gardens.
A focus of the 20-member Frontenac Garden Club is to define and shape the entrances to Frontenac from 1-64 at the Spoede exits, in concert with the City of Frontenac and the Missouri Department of Transportation.
The Garden Tour has been FGC’s primary fundraiser to purchase plant material for these planned beds. The Club’s volunteers have planted a hearty variety of hydrangea, grey owl junipers, and summer-loving black-eyed susans under the existing crabapple trees, ringed in a spring display of daffodils.
River birches were added under the east-bound soundwall during the Club’s April planting and trash pick-up event. There are three to four such events each year, in large part due to the efforts of Treebute founder Elizabeth Schenk and Rita Diekemper, founder of Gardens of Grace, LLC., who also developed the master landscape plan for these spaces.
Now that the 2025 Frontenac Garden Tour is over, the Frontenac Garden Club is hard at work, planning a unique event for 2026.
For those who loved the Garden Tour, it WILL be back! Just like the Garden Tour, the event in 2026 will be a natural extension of the Garden Club's mission to capitalize on the economic, environmental, and health benefits associated with flowers, shrubs, trees, and grasses; by supporting collaborative efforts to plan, implement, and manage natural areas in our community.
If you like what you see here and want to be a part of the Frontenac Garden Club, you are invited to attend a meeting held on the last Monday of the month at Frontenac City Hall, from 4:30 – 5:30 pm.
Once again, thank you to our Sponsors:
