The Garden Conservancy’s Hampden and Hampshire Counties Open Day will take place August 16.

Rock Valley Paradise in Holyoke includes a small orchard of fifteen fruit trees—apples, peaches, plums, pears, apricots, and cherries. The berries include blueberries, goji berries, elderberries, raspberries and blackberries and black, red, and champagne currants. The ‘Concord’ grapes provide lots of juice for the winter months. Seasonally the owners grow all kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, squash, eggplant, and all the other “regular veggies.” The homestead also boasts two dairy goats, a dozen chickens, and two hives of honey bees.

Thayer Garden in Hadley is centered around a 1747 farmhouse and an 1884 barn, with phlox, iris, daylilies, peonies, lilacs, and wisteria.

Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/garden-directory/open-days/