Resilient Roots is joining the Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival this July, and we're looking for local gardens to showcase. Do you have an outdoor space you'd like to share with fellow garden enthusiasts? In this Cape-wide event, private gardens are open to the public for a $5 fee, with all proceeds donated to local nonprofits. 

Resilient Roots would provide a couple of people to help you collect the entry fee on-site and to help with coordination, and you'd open your garden gates for visitors to self-tour. The festival runs from July 11-20, and garden hosts choose which days they'd like to be open.

You absolutely don't need hydrangeas in your garden to participate. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the event, would like to include all kinds of gardens, with features such as any of these:

• Edible landscaping

• Native plants

• Water views or a beautiful sense of place

• Especially tiny or especially large gardens

• Lots of unusual plants or collections of specific plant types

• Creative garden ornaments or art

• Farm animals

• Pollinator plants

• Unusual architecture, charming outbuildings, or outdoor "rooms"

• Many flowers that bloom in July

If you're interested in participating, email Sharon at sprout@resroots.org.

And stay tuned to this site for our schedule of gardens to visit, which will be available later this spring.