Apples, pears, prunes, apricots, walnuts, chestnuts and figs all blossom and bloom in a garden tucked into eastern shore of East Sound.

“Everything flourishes,” said Peter Dennis, owner of a home built by Pacific Northwest architect Hank Schubart once surrounded by a lush gardenscape.

“We’re reclamation gardening,” Dennis explained, detailing how the garden has not been well tended for nearly five years, so he and his partner Sal Annino are returning the property to its once majestic glory. “Gardening is an exercise in patience.”

Dennis and Annino’s home and garden are one of six featured in this year’s annual Garden Tour.

Each year, around 250 people travel to Orcas from all over the country to tour the handful of gardens the Orcas Island Garden Club included. This year’s tour will be held on June 25 and 26 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a theme of, “Imagine a Garden.” Tickets are $20 and are available at Darvill’s Bookstore, Crow Valley Gallery, Driftwood Nursery, Smith and Speed Mercantile and at the featured gardens during the tour.

“Each of the gardens are so very different than the others,” said garden tour co-chair Sally Hodson.

Variety is abundant with the gardens featured in this year’s tour, including Dennis and Annino’s verdant garden; a historical homestead garden; a formal Japanese-style garden; a garden with sculptures and flora; a farm which feeds a community; and the Orcas School garden.

Started more than 20 years ago, the garden at the Orcas school has grown to nearly 8,000 square feet of flowers, herbs, medicinal plants, spices and vegetables. Students from kindergarten to sixth-grade have an hour allocated into their schedules per week to work with Colleen Stewart, the school garden keeper, in the garden.

“It’s a magical, adventurous,” said Stewart, who took over the position of in 2015. “The most important thing is creating that affection toward gardening.”

Tourists visit any number of gardens on the tour in any order they prefer.

Along with the Dennis and Annino garden on Loon Song Road, and the Orcas School garden, garden tourists can visit Abbie and Rollie Rueb’s garden on Gridstone Harbor Road. The Rueb’s historical homestead is located in a meadow surrounded by a fir, cedar and maple forest. An orchard from the early 1900s remains nearby, along with a cottage style garden containing shrubs and flowers. The Ruebs have a collection of potted plants and a large vegetable garden as well.

Venturing from there, a garden tourist could find their way to Virginia’s Lane, and the Geoffrey Davis garden. Nestled in a cove on West sound, Davis’ Japanese garden includes ornamental trees, shrubs and bamboo, as well as Japanese shrines and sculpted rock.

Located north of Turtleback Mountain is Kai Dawn Farm, a community participatory farm created in 2014. This quarter-acre garden on Cadden Lane feeds 25 islanders with vegetables, fruit, flowers and herbs.

Marcia Spees’ garden on Harper Road mixes art and gardening. Local artists Zackarya Leck provided wood and metal structures which sits amongst a garden of trees, shrubs, roses, vegetables and more.