Here is another posting of the Garden Conservancys Open Days in New England this season. . .new ones will go up about every two weeks. Remember there is a nominal fee of $5. for each garden, payable as you enter. Check the link below for more complete information.

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Hartford County, CT Open Day - June 5, 2010

The Salsedo Family Garden

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Our gardens have been created on a unique location, a hilltop 1,000 feet above sea level with a magnificent view of 4,000 acres of watershed and state forest.

The Kaminski Garden

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

"Wow" is usually the first word spoken as visitors pass through the gates and enter the garden.

The Meade Garden

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

There have always been gardens around this 1804 federal-style house in historic Old Wethersfield.

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New Haven County, CT Open Day - June 5, 2010

Jardin des Brabant

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Since 1972, this has been one womanÂs enclosed garden retreat on three quarters of an acre.

Sabbatical Garden

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

An extended drive from the road leads to a serene get-away created and designed by Joseph S.

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Berkshire County, MA Open Day - June 6, 2010

Black Barn Farm

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

After being greeted by a pair of fantastical bird topiary, guests pass by the new "back door" terrace and its collection of container plantings.

Apple Hill

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

This magical writer's retreat was once an apple farm, and many old apple trees still grow here.

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Fairfield County, CT Open Day - June 6, 2010

Limewood Farm and Garden

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Originally a neglected wilderness of twenty-five acres, six acres are actively gardened, four acres are shallow pond, and fifteen acres have been given to the Bethel Land Trust.

Stonybrooke_Sandra Fales Hillman

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Forty years ago, we fell in love with the rambling old property of waterfalls, rock outcroppings, and open space.

Enchanted Woodland

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visitors will feel serene and enchanted in this woodland garden.

Susan Lloyd

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A stone outcropping along the early nineteenth-century house hides the garden beyond.

Rosebrook Gardens_Mar Jennings

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

As seen on the Today Show, Fine Living Network, CNN, Better TV and many other national and local networks across the country, Mar's passion, versatility and vitality is an infectious combination that awakens all your senses though the way he makes all his projects functional, beautiful and attainable.

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Westchester County, NY Open Day - June 6, 2010

Artemis Farm_Carol and Jesse Goldberg

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Ten years ago, I dismantled an unused barn on our farm and designed a formal garden on the site.

Darlington Hall

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

This eight-acre formal English-inspired garden is home to more than 250 flowering trees and more than 1,000 perennial plants.

Page Dickey and Francis Schell_Duck Hill

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

At Duck Hill, a series of hedged-in gardens are related to the nineteenth-century farmhouse they surround.

( Posters note: this is THE Paige Dickey, author of the garden classic,

"Duck Hill Journal" and many others.)

Keeler Hill Farm

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

The approach to Keeler Hill Farm is up a driveway of maple trees with horse paddocks on each side.

Perrin Garden

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A curved driveway partially lined with bottlebrush buckeye and fragrant sumac leads to a rise revealing an English-style country house surrounded by formal gardens.

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New London County, CT Open Day - June 6, 2010

Kentford Farm

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Kentford Farm is a perennial farm in the making.

Stone Acres_Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C. Paffard, Jr.

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A century-old boxwood hedge a quarter of a mile long, rose arbors, and a perennial cutting garden are highlights of this old-fashioned garden.

The Secluded Garden

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Take a ride up the quarter-mile drive to this three-and-one-half-acre Secluded Garden enclosed by 100-year-old lichen-covered stone walls.

Mr. and Mrs. Juan OCallahan

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

The six-acre seaside garden consists of grass with trees and border gardens along stone walls, a pool, and tennis court.