Litchfield County, CT Open Day

Litchfield County, CT Open Day

Sun, Jun 19, 2022

Please observe these new procedures and help us ensure a safe, contactless, and seamless garden experience for all visitors as well as our generous garden hosts:

  • Pre-registration is REQUIRED for each garden. Pre-register for each on this website, except where specifically indicated otherwise. Children under 12 are free and do not need to be pre-registered if accompanied by pre-registered adult.
  • Capacity is limited. Sorry, no walk-ins allowed; no paper tickets or cash payments will be accepted on-site.
  • Masks are required, at the discretion of the garden owners, and social distancing is encouraged at all in-person events.

For more details about these changes for this season, see the Open Days Q&A.


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

  • Juniper Ledge
    Juniper Ledge

    Juniper Ledge garden faces south on a gently sloping hillside. It's a garden for meandering; one is often presented with choices of going this way or that way…

  • Garden of Lee Link
    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…

  • Garden of Michael Trapp
    Garden of Michael Trapp

    This intimate Old World-style garden is replete with cobbled paths, terraced gardens, raised perennial beds, and reflecting pools. Overlooking the Housatonic River, the property has a distinct French/Italian flavor…

  • Debby and Bart Jones' Garden
    Debby and Bart Jones' Garden

    In 2000, when Debby and Bart bought their classic Greek Revival house, built by Colonel Dwight Wellington Pierce circa 1836, there were jagged topless spires of 50-foot spruce trees behind the house that had been ravaged by the tornado of 1989…

  • Garden of Jane Garmey
    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…