City Parks Tours this Friday, May 11

As part of National Public Gardens Day this Friday, May 11, the City of Santa Barbara is offering free guided tours of three of the City's favorite parks:
Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens:  Tours at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Grant Castelberg, the garden’s landscape designer, leads the noon and 2 p.m. tours. Anne-Marie Castelberg, author of Alice’s Garden, conducts a book signing at those times. Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens is considered the “crown jewel” of City parks and features an extensive botanical collection, koi pond, sensory garden, and more.
Chase Palm Park: Tours at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. A limited number of free passes for rides on the 1917 Allan Herschell Carousel are available at the Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo Street, generously sponsored by the PARC Foundation. Chase Palm Park is the City’s most recently developed park and features fountains, a creek, lagoon, large meadows, native plantings, and the historic carousel.
Mission Historical Park and A.C. Postel Rose Garden: Free docent-led tours at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. The park consists of ruins of the Old Mission’s reservoir, aqueduct, tannery, vats, grist mill and pottery; and the rose garden features a collection of more than 1500 accredited, All-American Roses.
For complete information on all of the day's events offered by numerous nonprofit garden destinations, visit www.sbpublicgardens.org