The Garden Conservancy's Open Days program has offered tours of thousands of the country's private gardens since 1995. Six gardens on the East End will welcome visitors on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. The East Hampton venues are the gardens of Juri Tint, Marcia Previti and Peter Gumpel, and Arlene Bujese.
Mr. Tint's property is lined entirely with trees and wooded areas. It includes a large lawn, flower beds, six decorative apple trees, and a vegetable plot.
The Previti/Gumpel garden is a series of rooms. Sculptures by the owners are scattered throughout, and paths wind through cedar groves past lawns and plantings. A sun garden, a shade garden, a fire pit area, a tented dining area, and the two artists' studios will all be open for viewing.
Ms. Bujese's landscape consists of four rooms. A flower garden bordered by evergreens surrounds a goldfish pond at the rear of the house, and brick walkways weave throughout. Ms. Bujese is an art collector and former gallerist, and more than 20 sculptures are placed around the property, including works by William King, Alfonso Ossorio, and Dennis Leri.
In Bridgehampton, Entwood is a seven-acre walking garden that was developed over 25 years, from a flat potato field into a series of garden rooms, expansive views, and specimen plants and trees. The property includes a small Japanese-style garden, several koi ponds, a large arboretum of cultivars, and a rock garden.
The Jardin de Bonheur in Water Mill features a traditional shingled cottage surrounded by privet hedges and boxwoods; plantings including peonies, hydrangeas, Spider Wort, phlox, perennial azaleas, and many rose varieties. An English boxwood garden with a kinetic sculpture in its center is surrounded by Russian sage.
On the North Fork, the Landcraft Garden Foundation in Mattituck, formed in 2020 by Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith, is dedicated to providing a horticulturally diverse experience. The four-acre property has many perennial and shrub borders throughout, accessed by winding paths. It includes a vegetable/herb garden, a formal knot garden, several bog plantings, meadow gardens, and a woodland shade area.
The gardens will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pre-registration for each, on the garden conservancy's website, is required; no walk-ins will be allowed. Tickets are $10 per garden, but children under 12 are admitted for free and need not pre-register if accompanied by an adult.
