This weekend Concerned Citizens of Montauk hosts the Great Montauk Cleanup, and there are trail walks at Culloden Point and Montauk Point State Park.

The most fragrant of blooms greet in scent before their mood-boosting color says good morning once you open your eyes. My favorite bedside fragrances include hyacinth in April, lilac in May, and peonies in early June.

Spring and summer 2026 promise many moments rich with beauty in the garden, the oasis to which we escape, seeking solace, wonder, and peace. Here, our editor’s choice of garden-related events for the season ahead — from the edifying and educational to the purely pleasurable.

Winter of 2026 was rough on the gardens at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. Wet, heavy snow snapped branches and flattened stalks. But at ground level, unseen life was proceeding as it always does. “Gardens are supposed to do that. Now there is a little more sky,” Alejandro Saralegui, the garden’s executive director, said.