The Garden Conservancy Open Days Program
Admission to each private garden is $5. Rain or shine. No reservations required.
September 5 thru 7 - Hollister House Garden Study Weekend
Seminar, Garden Festival & Open Days Garden Tours, Washington.
September 5 - COCKTAIL RECEPTION 5-7:30
Meet speakers and tour Hollister House Garden
September 6 - SEMINAR & FESTIVAL All Day
Morning Seminar: Creating a Personal Garden Style: Dan Pearson, British garden designer, plantsman, and contributing editor to Gardens Illustrated magazine. With Judith B. Tankard, Hitch Lyman, Bill Noble, and George Schoellkopf. Barbara Paul Robinson, moderator. At Washington Town Hall. AFTERNOON FESTIVAL at Hollister House Garden: Buffet lunch, self-guided tours of gardens; Connoisseurs' Plant Sale with 10 specialty nurseries; Plant Show and Tell by Page Dickey & Marco Polo Stufano, nurserymen Pierre Bennerup & Adam Wheeler
September 7 - GARDEN CONSERVANCY OPEN DAY 10-4
5 distinctive Litchfield County gardens plus Hollister House Garden. Admission: $5/ garden. REGISTRATION: (for Friday & Saturday) Fees. Register Online
or (860) 868-2200.Limited capacity. Reserve early.
September 7 - 6 Gardens in Litchfield County 10-4
Behnke_Doherty: Front and back borders frame rolling lawns. Mature dwarf-conifer garden, pool gardens, woodland gardens. Red Mill Farm: Informal gardens, 1840s farmhouse, pre-Revolutionary War sawmill. Changing levels,container plants and vines, white garden, sweeping lawns, sawmill area, wet garden border millpond and waterways. Brush Hill: gardens on varied topography, 18th-century farmhouse and barn, old roses and climbers, fountain garden, herbaceous borders, terraced garden planted in hot colors, garden folly, cascading pools, turquoise bridge over 1/2-acre pond. Allard: High on a hillside garden is partly formal and partly potager.Geometric beds. Read the story . Duchin: informal terraces beneath mature native trees. Mainly green plantings, pots and containers of colorful annuals. Hollister House: old-fashioned, rambling formal garden informally planted with exuberant abundance of common and exotic plants in subtle, and sometimes surprising, color combinations. High walls and hedges, interesting vistas. Read the story
The Garden Conservancy
P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, NY
www.opendaysprogram.org or 1-888-842-2442

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735 Nod Hill Road Wilton
(203) 834-1896 or www.nps.gov/wefa

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