Sakonnet Garden is a hidden exotic garden within a native coastal fields landscape, a long-term project of John Gwynne and Mikel Folcarelli. This ongoing experiment in design, scale, and plantings began as an acre-sized spring woodland garden and is subdivided into spaces separated by high windbreak hedges and stone walls that enable growing of many Zone 7 plants. Each space has its own mood and horticultural objective. These woodland areas are very different in summer, mostly shady and green, but with the “subtropical quadrant” at peak of exuberance. Open for the first time on August 22 for the Garden Conservancy, a new “pollinator plus” summer garden is a colorful walk through perennial border conceived as a biodiversity maze. Thousands of flowers produce nectar for butterflies, bees (especially native bees), and other insects important for pollination. Clipped topiary Ilex begins to mimic the Nupé house posts from Ghana.

For more information about the garden, visit www.sakonnetgarden.com.

Registration will be via the Sakonnet Garden’s website; booking will open soon.