Cocktails in Great Gardens

BBG’s Cocktails in Great Gardens series provides a rare opportunity for guests to savor a drink and a nibble in some of the finest private gardens in the region. Book early, as tickets may be limited, and they always go fast! Registration will open in early May.

Church House with Page Dickey and Bosco Schell

Wednesday, June 19, 5 to 7 p.m.

Members: $45/Non-Members: $55

Join us for a unique opportunity to tour Church House, Page Dickey and Bosco Schell’s gardens and surrounding 17 acres of fields and woods located in Falls Village, Conn. Ideally situated with a view of the Berkshire Hills, it is a gardener’s classroom with groves of shadblow (Amelanchier), a saltwater pool accented by hydrangeas and flowering shrubs, and a small cottage garden surrounding the house. Meadow paths rich in native flowers lead to a lime rock-strewn woodland and ravine with a vernal pool.

The Gardens of Peter Bevacqua and Stephen King

Thursday, Aug. 15, 5 to 7 p.m.

Members: $45/Non-Members: $55

This magical garden, hidden from street-view in the hamlet of Claverack, N.Y., has been evolving with devotion and care for the last 30 years. This 2.5-acre garden feels much larger because of its division into many garden spaces — spaces designed with a careful eye to structure, form, and texture. Among the features are the sunk garden (with topiary and surrounded by architectural yew hedges), a hydrangea walk, conifer garden, the greenhouse herbaceous borders, a “Nearly-native” garden, and many unusual trees and shrubs.

Kingsmont with Sherry and Dan Kasper

Friday, Sept. 13, 5 to 7 p.m.

Members: $45/Non-Members: $55

Kingsmont is located on a 12-acre site in the Berkshire Hills near the border with New York State. The land, once part of a summer camp, is terraced down the eastern side of Harvey Mountain. Gardens surround the striking house on all sides with banks of mixed plantings of trees, shrubs, perennials and floral carpet roses, a trellised garden with raised vegetable beds and apple trees, and a large pond designed by Anthony Archer-Wills.