The Wareham Garden Club held its annual garden tour of selected Wareham homes June 29 and 30 and, once again, it was a dazzling display of variety and ingenuity.

Six homes were included in this year's tour, and the gardeners offered wide variety in their approach and appeal.

The tour began with Kathleen Coyle's dramatic transformation of a small, nondescript Onset lot into a lush flower and vegetable garden -- with the "before" photos from nine years ago putting an exclamation point on the "after."

And it ended at the more expansive gardens surrounding Bob and Sis Pouliot's Purrsnikitty cat boarding facility on Great Neck Road.

Along the way, there was plenty of inspiration on display for gardeners and garden lovers of all tastes.

The tour itself proved inspiring to Lisa McCarthy Fields, who with husband Bob owns an Onset home on the tour. A prolific artist in time not spent at the couple's Framingham marketing agency, Fields had some of her paintings on display throughout the gardens.

"Yesterday was one of the best days of my life," she said on the tour's second day.

She explained: The couple agreed to have their home put on the tour but, "I work -- I didn't really meet the women of the Garden Club."

Until Friday that is, when she visited the other gardens, met many of the women responsible for pulling the tour together, and "fell back in love with this community."

The six photo galleries are divided to show each home's gardens separately.