Cocktails in Great Gardens have become some of the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s most popular summer events by offering guests a tour of some of the most amazing private gardens that the Berkshire’s have to offer and this year is no exception. This year’s Cocktail series kicks off Friday June 17 from 5 – 7 with the extraordinary garden and home of Alice Platt in Craryville, New York.

This garden, which won a Golden Trowel Award from Garden Design magazine in 2005, is nestled in the woods at the end of a country lane. It takes advantage of a widely varied landscape to create a series of informal gardens that attempt to exploit the beauty of the natural setting. The site contains woodland paths, which wander over bridges across a creek and past the remains of old stone walls and natural rock formations. Included in the gardens are sunny herbaceous borders, a rock garden, shade garden, and a park-like hillside garden. Out of sight but just over a rise is a path that leads to a swimming pond. Image from Country Living magazine.

BBG members $35, nonmembers $50. Register on line at https://berkshirebotanical.org/event/cocktails-in-great-gardens-the-home-of-alice-platt/?instance_id=3847