Do people actually travel around New England to others gardens for visits?
Traveling to others gardens?
Iris people do if they are judges. Noone can judge all the plants on a ballot--certainly not able to grow them all. So we go to other gardens to see different plants. I would guess that other specialties do the same. There are botanic gardens, open gardens--garden club treks. We may not travel as far with the price of gas being up, but Yankee magazine gives places to see & I suspect other magazines do as well.
there are roundups where people from all around a region on DG try to meet up - sometimes at a public park or nursery, sometimes at someone's house/garden.
Yeah, sure we do. I think Kassia wins the award for traveling to the most DG gardener's gardens.
They have a garden tour here put on by a local club. I have never gone on it but one day I would like to see what its like. You can get some great ideas from other people's gardens in your local area.