TOURS WILL GO ON -- Offering "Irene Discount" $15 in ADVANCE: Featuring ten properties “On and off The Avenue & The Drive”, this year’s tour offers private gardens & hidden yards of some of Newport's most prestigious homes, estates, and bed & breakfasts. Since 1984, the organizers and supporters of The Secret Garden Tour have been dedicated to enhancing art education and cultural programs in Aquidneck Island's Public Schools. To date, The Secret Garden Tour has given more than $1 million for art, music, theater and other cultural programming.