Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden (9 Main Street North, Bethlehem, CT 06751): 12-4 pm. Roam the beautiful, landscaped areas of our 10-acre property. Over a 70-year period, Eliza Ferriday and her daughter, Caroline, created a garden showcasing their love of roses, lilacs and peonies. Today, the garden is maintained by staff. Bellamy-Ferriday joined CT Historic Gardens in 2004 as a founding member. Our staff will be on hand to answer questions.. MORE INFORMATION

Butler-McCook House & Garden (396 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103). 9 am to 1 pm. Have you ever been inside a “Pit House”? We’ll show you ours and share its history and significance for the McCook garden.

Inspired by their European travels, Eliza Butler and Mary Sheldon adapted an original plan by the Swiss landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann for their Victorian ornamental garden on Hartford’s Main Street. The formal parterre garden features low boxwood hedges with beds of roses, perennials, and annuals connected by winding stone paths. It is lovingly cared for by the West Hartford Garden Club. Butler-McCook joined CT Historic Gardens in 2004 as a founding member. MORE INFORMATION

At the Florence Griswold Museum (96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371), drop in 10am- 2pm when members of the dedicated Garden Gang will be on hand to answer questions and give impromptu garden tours. Visitors can enjoy hands-on creative projects. Plein-air painting is available, weather permitting. The Museum’s gardens and grounds are (always) open to the public from dawn to dusk. Fees to the galleries and historic house are $18 adults, $17 seniors (62+), $16 students (13+), $7.50 children ages 5-12, and free to children age 4 or younger. Exhibitions include a juried show Patchwork: Connecticut Artists Consider 250 and From Art Colony to Connecticut Collection: Highlights from the Florence Griswold Museum.

Glebe House Museum (49 Hollow Road, Woodbury, CT 06798) offers Guided Jekyll Garden Tours, led by Garden Volunteers, 9 am-12 pm. There will be a museum open house 12-4 pm, along with self-guided tours of the Jekyll Garden during that time. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free (donations accepted).

Harkness (275 Great Neck Road, Waterford, CT 06385): Visitors are welcome 10:30 am - 1:30 pm. [A wedding on the property that day requires visitors to vacate the park before 2 pm.]

At Hill-Stead Museum (35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT 06032), visitors can stop in the Museum Shop for a handout about the Sunken Garden and a trail guide. The garden and grounds will be open for self-guided exploration 12-4 pm. Volunteers will be in the garden to answer questions. Visitors can also walk the beautiful trails or meander down to the old farm to see the sheep from Clatter Ridge Farm! The Historic House will be open for guided tours; regular admission fees apply for house tours and can be paid in the Museum Shop. 

The Mark Twain House & Museum (351 Farmington Ave., Hartford) will have staff and garden volunteers on hand from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm and will be open for tours from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Note: setting gps for 385 Farmington Ave., Hartford, will put visitors right at the driveway to the main parking lot. 

Osborne Homestead (500 Hawthorne Ave., Derby, CT 06418) will provide self-guided and docent-led tours of the museum and gardens 12 to 4 pm. After strolling through the gardens, visitors can tour the historic house museum where they will learn about Frances Osborne Kellogg’s love of flowers and impact on environmental conservation.

Phelps-Hatheway (55 South Main Street, Suffield, CT 06078) -- Gardens and grounds will be open 9 am to 1 pm. Tours of the museum will be given 10 am to 1 pm. Join in the fun as we gather herbs to make a bundle for drying. Instructions for the care and use of your bunch will be shared! The grounds of this 18th century home on Suffield’s historic South Main Street feature a formal parterre garden designed by landscape architect Mary Wells Edwards, a large herb bed, and scattered flowering shrubs. Suffield Garden Club members will be on hand to answer questions about the garden’s history and its inventory. Phelps-Hatheway became the 15th member of CT Historic Gardens in 2018. MORE INFORMATION

Promisek (694 Skyline Ridge Road, Bridgewater, CT 06752) will be open 12-4 pm. Master Gardeners will offer guided garden tours. Trails along the property are available for walking.

Roseland Cottage (556 Route 169, Woodstock, CT 06281) invites you to celebrate the day with a visit to Roseland Cottage’s historic parterre garden 12-4pm.

Stanley-Whitman House (37 High Street, Farmington, CT 06032): CT's Historic Gardens Day features free historic garden tours 10 am to 4 pm. Tours are first come, first served. Volunteers and staff will be on site to guide visitors through the 17th-century-inspired Early Settlers and Hops and Dye Gardens and the 18th-century-inspired Dooryard Garden.

The Stowe Center for Literary Activism (77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT 06105): While the Stowe House is closed for tours on Sundays, garden volunteers will be on hand from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm on CT Historic Gardens Day to talk with visitors about the beautiful Stowe Center gardens and grounds and the history behind their design and the selection of plants contained therein. Complimentary lemonade and cookies will be offered. MORE INFORMATION

At Thankful Arnold House Museum (14 Hayden Hill Road, Haddam, CT 06438), 12 -4 pm, visitors will learn how herbs, vegetables, and plants were used by the Widow Thankful Arnold in the early 19th century. The garden features over 50 varieties of herbs including those used in cooking, dyeing, fragrance, and medicine. Light refreshments will be served including our famous rhubarb tea.  Admission to both house and garden is free.

Join us at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum (211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT 06109) 9am-1pm for activities (gardens remain open until dark).
Free activities include: garden walks and talks with WDS Garden Angels; a garden scavenger hunt; rock painting; and complimentary refreshments in the barn. Ticketed special events: 10 am Yoga in Bloom (yoga in the garden, in collaboration with Soulshine Yoga - $25); 11:30 am Lecture in the barn with head gardener Peter Winne - The Harmony of Plants, about the fascinating connection between music and plants ($15). Expect a musical interlude as well! Museum admission is 50% off all day. Includes admission to our two new exhibitions, American Girlhood: Needlework, Memory, and the Making of a Nation and Remember the Ladies: Women of the Revolution, as well as a guided tour of our three historic houses.

Weir Farm (735 Nod Hill Road, Wilton, CT 06897): 12-4 pm. Stop by for short informal talks with expert Garden Crew Volunteers, grab a set of watercolors and paint some plants, and participate in fun activities! No registration required- just stop by and smell the flowers!