Garden Businesses: Partner with Open Days
Open Days partners with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida to celebrate their annual Garden Month of tours, lectures, concerts, and art workshops for visitors of all ages.
Landscape architect James deGrey David treated guest to a private tour and discussion in his Austin, Texas garden through a Digging Deeper event in 2015.
For more than ten years, Open Days has partnered with the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon to share private gardens throughout the Pacific Northwest. HPSO members recently visited Garden Conservancy headquarters in New York during a wider tour of the Hudson Valley.
Pondside Nursery of Hudson, New York is just one of many nurseries or specialty growers that held pop-up sales during Open Days gardens in 2016.
Since 1995, we have shared thousands of outstanding private gardens in 41 states, welcoming more than one million visitors. This incredible annual program is also produced almost entirely by volunteers….hundreds of individuals who help us showcase regional horticultural and stylistic expressions in a national context—celebrating the rich diversity in American gardens.
We know that nurseries, specialty growers, and many other exciting garden-related businesses clearly share Open Days' love of gardens—and we invite you to get involved.
As an Open Days partner, there is so much you can contribute to Open Days:
- Serve as a Lead Garden (starting point) at an existing area Open Day
- Host a Digging Deeper or coordinate a special tour at your own site to complement Open Days
- Create pop-up shops at an Open Days location to introduce your products
Partnering with Open Days is a terrific way to grow your audience by connecting with our diverse, nationwide community of garden enthusiasts. Our Open Days partners are all featured in our:
- Open Days website (34,897 average unique page views/month)
- E-mail reminders (sent to our list of more than 18,500 names)
- Garden Conservancy Facebook page (over 81,000 likes) and Instagram page (about 32,000 followers)
To find out more call 1.845.424.6502 or email us at opendays@gardenconservancy.org.
Open Days 2024
Registration is now open for all Open Days through the end of May!
Pictured (left to right): Open Days Public Program and Education Associate Philllip Carruthers, Open Days Program Manager Amy Murray, Director of Public Programs & Education Horatio Joyce