June 12, 2010, 02:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Cornell Cooperative Extension, 614 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY
The June Open Days Garden Tours will take place Saturday June 12, 10:00 – 4:00. These outstanding gardens are not normally open to the public. Admission to each garden is $5 per person. The tours are drop-in and self-guided with no reservations required, and are held rain or shine. For more info about each garden, go to ccetompkins.org/gardentour, or email dek22@cornell.edu , or call 272-2292, ext. 123, or pick up a map on the day of the tour at Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave in Ithaca.
There will be three different gardens open on July 31.
June 12 Gardens
Myers Garden – 1071 Michigan Hollow Rd, West Danby/Spencer
Six acres of rolling lawn and perennial beds contain more than 550 different varieties of perennials nestled behind and between fieldstone walls and structures. Features include a covered bridge, a working water wheel on a post-and-beam constructed feed mill, a blacksmith shop, and a huge glass sponge fossil rock enclosed in a unique display case. There is also a thirty-foot-diameter stone sundial and a potting shed garden with four raised beds.
THIS PLACE IS A GARDEN, A PARK, AND A MUSEUM ALL IN ONE. EVERYONE LOVES THIS GARDEN!
Der Rosenmeister – 190 Seven Mile Dr., Ithaca
This three-acre hillside garden and nursery, the result of a hobby run amok, includes more than 250 varieties of cold-hardy roses. Climbers and ramblers clamber over swags, posts, pergolas, fences, and trees. Beds of antique roses spill into the paths around the brick terraces. Hybrid rugosas run through a 100-foot mixed border. Visitors will see a large bonsai collection and many unusual trees, including twenty-five gingko cultivars. Admire the chickens as you sit under an espaliered weeping English oak in the rose garden or the Camperdown elm trained over an arbor.
THIS IS THE FINEST ROSE COLLECTION IN ITHACA AND HAS PLENTY OF OTHER EXCELLENT FEATURES!
Lion Garden – 219 Lansing Station Rd., Lansing
Flowers welcome you from the moment you arrive. Entrance plantings embrace the street and line the brick driveway, filled with hundreds of blooming perennials. The sound of flowing water emanates from three connected ponds containing lotus, water lilies, and koi. Large beds around the house are filled with perennials, and dozens of planted pots grace the deck on the shady hillside. The gardens continue down a steep, wooded hill, where borders of shade-loving perennials, groundcovers and shrubs surround a gazebo and folly. Woodland trails lead to a small ravine below the garden.
THIS GARDEN HAS IT ALL: SUN, WOODLAND, CONTAINERS, WALKING PATHS, INTERESTING STRUCTURES.
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