This summer , handle yourself to an inspiring garden experienceand visit a spectacular garden near you . Most of us have n’t the means or the expertness to achieve such magnanimousness , but we can draw inspiration from these extraordinary configurations .

Each twelvemonth since 1995 , the Garden Conservancy has opened distinguished individual garden to the public through its Open Days program . This season , the program preserve until early November , andFine Gardeningis please to give away 8 prize parcel . The packages will include 6 tickets and an Open Days directory . Each individual just the ticket is in force for one sojourn to any of the private gardens , which are located all over the United States .

How to enter

For a fortune to succeed a prize package , pick out a garden you ’d like to visitandpost a comment here by May 1telling us why you ’d wish to see that particular garden and what you hope to study . Winners will be choose at random shortly after that date and notified by email .

TheHollister House Gardenin Washington , Conn. ; one of the garden patricipating in the Open Days program .

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