This weekend is the Monroe County Garden Tour, sponsored (and with proceeds to benefit) the University of Illinois Extension including Master Gardner, Master Naturalist and 4-H programs.

The tour is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Columbia, rain or shine.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 the day of the tour and may be purchased at the Annex, Bountiful Blossoms, Bloomin’ Diehls, Memory Lane, Shady Creek and Stuckmeyer’s.