Sunday, September 7th 10am-4pm
An Outstanding Opportunity to Visit 5 Beautiful Gardens
The day features self-guided tours of 4 private gardens and Hollister House Garden.
The Sumacs – 23 Ferry Bridge Road Washington, CT
The Sumacs features a stately home designed by Ehrick Rossiter and built in 1894. Rock outcroppings, specimen trees, boxwood hedges and gardens surround the house. A formal potager enclosed by a hedge of yews, a cutting garden, orchard, and perennial gardens make an elegant nod to the classic English garden. Fall is ushered in with a colorful dahlia collection. A hidden woodland trail includes an array of specimen trees, shrubs, and shade-loving perennials.
Platt House – 37 Ferry Bridge Road Washington, CT
The completely organic gardens surrounding the 1898 Rossiter-designed Senator Orville Platt House are an explosion of Dahlia exuberance and color in September. The original Rossiter retaining wall is the foundation for the upper-level veranda garden. A Purple Fountain Weeping Beech is the focal point of the top garden and 1000+ dahlias of approximately 75 varieties are planted throughout the property. The kitchen garden, wisteria pergola and a meditation house are of particular interest.
Treetops – 115 Lower Church Hill Road, Washington Depot, CT
This is an eight-acre property that boasts breathtaking views of Steep Rock Summit and south to Roxbury. In 2024, a complete reimagination of the landscape was undertaken by D.J. Noyes of Water Street Designs in Stonington, CT. The property has a long winding driveway through mature woodlands. The gardens around the house feature specimen trees, perennial gardens, a pool rose garden, a blue garden and a shade garden.
The Garden of Peter Wooster – 150 Apple Lane Roxbury, CT
The garden has been long admired for its intimate design and incredible collection of plants. Now nearing its fifth decade, it began as a collector’s garden. Over time it became recognized for its great plantsmanship and unusual perennials, shrubs, annuals, and exotics, as well as for its simple but elegant architectural form. Covering only a half-acre, there are six large, rectangular beds framed by grass paths with a border that ties it all together
Hollister House Garden – 300 Nettleton Hollow Road Washington, CT
Hollister House Garden is an American interpretation of classic English gardens: formal in its structure but informal and rather wild in its style of planting. Begun in 1979, the garden since that time has evolved into a unique synthesis of the formal and the natural, with paths, walls and hedges forming a magnificent backdrop to the garden’s exuberant plantings.
The Meraki food truck will be at Hollister House Garden from 11:30 – 2:30
Advance Reservations for all 5 gardens $40
Available until 4 pm on September 6
Individual gardens may be visited on the day of the tour $10 per person (cash or Venmo only)
Thank you to our generous event sponsor Litchfield Magazine
The Sumacs – 23 Ferry Bridge Road Washington, CT
Platt House – 37 Ferry Bridge Road Washington, CT
Treetops – 115 Lower Church Hill Road, Washington Depot, CT
The Garden of Peter Wooster – 150 Apple Lane Roxbury, CT
Hollister House Garden – 300 Nettleton Hollow Road Washington, CT
