If you happen to see a woman frozen in place on the street near your house, gazing in awe at your koi pond or meticulously cultivated climbing roses, don’t be alarmed.

It’s just Linda Temperino, scouting out beautiful new landscapes to feature on the Friends of the Nashua Symphony’s annual Nashua Garden Tour.

As of Monday, the Nashua Symphony has changed its name to Symphony NH.

Temperino, a member of the Friends of the Nashua Symphony and the Nashua Garden Club who coordinates the tour, has many people who offer their gardens for the event. If there aren’t enough volunteers, however, she’ll go around and knock on doors, asking people with attractive gardens to participate.

The response is usually favorable.

“Gardeners like to show off their hard work,” Temperino said.

This year’s tour, showcasing half a dozen distinctly different gardens, will be from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, June 23-24, at locations throughout Nashua, rain or shine.

Advance tickets are $15. They can be purchased at www.nashuasymphony.org or at Beckonings, Scontsas Home Decor and Topiary Florist in Nashua; Country Brook Farms in Hudson; and Mixed Border Garden Center in Hollis.

Tickets also will be available for $20 on the days of the tour at 3 Coleridge Road, Nashua, the location of one of the gardens.

A morning coffee will be held there from 8:30-10 a.m. Sunday, tickets for which are $10 and must be purchased online ahead of time.

Attendees will receive a booklet with a map of all the tour locations when they buy their tickets. Booklets will be available at any of the tour locations.

The tour is self-guided, Temperino said, so people can move at their own pace and spend as much or as little time as they desire at each garden.

“They’re all so beautiful,” she said. “Every garden is as unique as the individuals themselves.”

Attendees can explore the gardens at 3 Coleridge Road, which is the work of the family who resides there, as well as a garden that backs onto Route 3 and is separated from the highway by a sound barrier.

“It’s amazing how this couple has taken a negative situation with all that noise from the highway” and improved it, Temperino said, describing the results as nothing short of stunning.

Another garden is hidden from the road by an 8-foot white vinyl fence “beautifully softened with ornamental grasses and roses,” she said.

A compact garden, a sprawling landscape and a terraced garden round out the tour.

The event draws a variety of flower lovers and gardeners, Temperino said, from rookies seeking inspiration to seasoned garden club members who enjoy looking at others’ handiwork.

Proceeds will benefit Symphony NH’s education programs.

“We really need to have people come out and support it,” Temperino said, “because the community really needs to support the symphony.”

She related a sad story from a friend in Syracuse, N.Y., who told her that the city lost its symphony because it lacked the community support to keep it funded.

“We cannot let that happen here,” Temperino said. “It’s a wonderful symphony that we have, and we need to keep it alive. Don’t let our symphony fade away like a faded flower.”

Teresa Santoski can be reached at 594-6466 or tsantoski@nashuatelegraph.com. Also, follow Santoski on Twitter (@Telegraph_TS).