Litchfield County, CT and Dutchess County, NY Open Day

Sun, Jun 23, 2024

To register, please click on the garden name or photo below.

Wethersfield Estate and Garden is also hosting a Digging Deeper on this date: The History of Wethersfield Estate & Garden and How Its Responding to Beech Tree Blights

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  Wethersfield Estate & Garden

  Complement your Open Day with a visit to this nearby public garden.

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  Dappled Berms - The Garden of Scott VanderHamm

  The garden is situated on a one-acre property within a 1950s (IBM-era) suburban community. As a result of the mature trees that dominate the grounds...

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  Shekomeko Hillside Garden

  Situated high in the hills overlooking Dutchess County's Shekomeko Valley, this garden has been lovingly curated by Eileen Naughton for the past 25 years.

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  Garden of Helen Bodian

  Over the years, this garden has developed into a landscape for strolling and leisurely observation, having accumulated a series of paths and trails that lead to and around various features.

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  Michael's West Cornwall Garden

  This intimate Old World-style garden is replete with cobbled paths, terraced gardens, raised perennial beds, and reflecting pools.

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  Garden of Jane Garmey

  An idiosyncratic garden designed by and belonging to garden writer Jane Garmey, whose most recent book is City Green: The Public Gardens of New York…

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  The Sumacs

  Set on nine sprawling acres, The Sumacs features a stately home designed by Ehrick Rossiter and built in 1894.

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  Brush Hill

  Take a virtual tour of Brush Hill Gardens at brushhillgardens.com for a preview of many different areas.

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  Garden of Lee Link

  Three stone walls climb up a hillside, at the top of which is a greenhouse containing a wide spectrum of succulents and tropical plants…

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  The Shillingford Garden

  This garden was started from a completely blank canvas in 2013 by its owners, two English transplants who found themselves living in the NW corner "if not quite by mistake, then never by design."

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  Garden of Bunny Williams

  Interior designer and garden book author Bunny Williams's intensively planted fifteen-acre estate has a sunken garden with twin perennial borders surrounding a fishpond, a seasonally changing parterre garden, and more.

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  Garden of Debby and Bart Jones

  Together they created gentle meandering paths out of flat stones collected from the adjoining field and circled them around the unsightly stumps, camouflaging them as well as they could with climbing roses, lilacs, magnolias, and fragrant English cottage garden perennials...