The Cincinnati areas has at least a dozen major garden and pond tours a year.
Add to that the almost weekly private tours/sales and it can be a full time hobby just browsing other people's triumphs.
Here's are links to many we've been on.
The small farming community of Williamsburg, OH has a major gardening group.
They only hold their tours every other year.
We assumed it would be a small time tour as it's just basically a rural two traffic light burg.
We'll you know assumptions!
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