Throughout the history of the Azalea Trail, select homeowners have generously offered an intimate look at their beautifully curated private home gardens. In 2026, Azalea Trail goers will be able to tour four private home gardens featuring unique, breathtaking designs. Each home garden offers an abundance of inspiration, including enticing planting combinations, creative concepts, emerging trends, and stunning floral displays. Exact location addresses will be shared on purchased ticket details and order confirmation emails.

Additional details:

• The $35 ticket grants you access to all seven gardens and can be used over multiple days, functioning like a punch card. There are four home gardens in addition to Bayou Bend Collection & Gardens, Rienzi, and The Forum of Civics Building and Garden.
• Free Admission at The Forum
• Children under the age of 14 are free
• Limited wheelchair access*
• Strollers not recommended
• Rain or Shine
• No pets
• No discounts for large groups

Azalea Trail proceeds support local landscape and beautification projects, horticulture awareness, conservation, and education projects related to horticulture or conservation, which include but are not limited to the following:

• Maintenance of the Forum of Civics Building and Gardens
• Historical Preservation and Maintenance of Bayou Bend Gardens
• Bayou Bend Garden Endowment, a Charitable Trust for the Care of Bayou Bend Gardens
• The Annual Sadie Gwin Blackburn Environmental Seminar
• Publication of “A Garden Book for Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast”