The Highline Garden Tour will bloom on Saturday, June 11. Participants will tour beautiful private gardens in Burien, Normandy Park, and SeaTac. Ticket holders also will be treated to access to the organic kitchen garden that supplies the gourmet Copperleaf Restaurant in SeaTac.

Other tour features include a plant sale at the Highline-SeaTac Botanical Garden. Gardening expert Lorene Forkner will speak on "Small Is the New BIG: 3 Big Rules (& 4 Small Ones) for Designing Small Gardens with Impact."

Tour tickets are $15 in advance, with group rates of $12 per person if bought in groups of four or more. Tickets will be $18 on the day of the tour. Tickets can be purchased at Herr Backyard Garden Center, 107 SW 160th Street; Burien Bark, 13258 1st Avenue S; and Lavina Mays, 17824 1st Avenue S. Tickets also can be purchased by calling 206-241-5786.

For more information about the Highline Garden Tour and about the Highline Historical Society, visit www.highlinehistory.org