BREWSTER – Voted “Best Garden Tour” in the Hudson Valley, Partners with PARC announces the date of this year’s Secret Garden Tour: Saturday, June 4, 2016.
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The day-long event, with gardens open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is a self-guided driving tour to the best and most beautiful private gardens in Putnam County, just one hour from New York City and centrally located to the entire tri-state area and Hudson Valley.
This country driving tour, now in its 10th year, will bring you to private homes and renowned sites with formal gardens, perennial flowering landscapes, beautiful fields and vistas, water gardens, and herb and flowering vegetable gardens throughout Putnam County. Once you arrive at the garden destinations, home owners will guide you through their landscapes, telling the history of the gardens and answering questions about plantings and designs.
In addition to seven private gardens in Garrison, Cold Spring, Kent, Carmel, Putnam Valley, and Brewster, two public gardens in Garrison and Cold Spring will be a part of the tour.
Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring returns to the tour this year with its 63 acres of alpine gardens, bog garden, woodland and water gardens, cliff rock garden and an enclosed English-style flower garden. And don’t miss the gardens at Boscobel House & Gardens in Garrison, a renowned spot along the Hudson River complete with blooming daffodils, tulips and cherry trees plus the Herb Garden & Orangery, the Apple Orchard and the romantic Rose Garden.
This is a rain or shine event. Advance ticket prices are $30 for all the gardens.
Advance tickets may be purchased online at www.PutnamSecretGardenTour.com. All major credit cards are accepted.
Day of event tickets are $40 and will be sold at two locations: The Butterfield Library, 10 Morris Ave. (Route 9D), Cold Spring, NY 10516 or PARC, 31 International Blvd., Brewster, NY 10509. Day of event tickets will be sold from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. only.
2016 event sponsors include: Hudson Valley Magazine and Putnam County Tourism.
Based in Brewster, NY, Partners with PARC is a 501 c (3) charity which raises funds to support children and adults with developmental disabilities in Putnam County, NY. Support of our fundraisers and events aids people in need and contributions are tax deductible, as allowed by law.
For more information, call 845-278-7272, ext. 2287 or log onto www.PartnerswithPARC.org
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