On Wednesday mornings the garden will be open for plein air painters and photographers from 8AM-12PM. Come and be inspired by the beauty of the garden in the morning light.

Please fill out and submit this contact form before you come each week. When you arrive please park only in designated areas.

Please stay on the gravel paths and the lawn – no easels in the beds!

THERE IS A $5 PER PERSON FEE. PLEASE COME PREPARED WITH CORRECT CHANGE

“Garden Visions”

Be inspired by a day long symposium featuring:

Troy Scott Smith – head gardener at Sissinghurst Castle on “Re-vita-lising Vita”
David Culp – author and garden designer on “Making Meadows”
Martha Stewart –  television host and author on “My Life in Four Gardens”
Lisa Roper -horticulturalist of the Gravel Garden “The Evolution of Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden”

The symposium will be moderated by Stephen Orr editor-in-chief of Better Homes and Gardens

Click here for event details.

The symposium is sold out.

If you would like to be placed on the waiting list please call the Hollister House Garden office at 860-868-2200.

Patron $750 – includes invitation to the speaker dinner on Friday evening at Hollister House Garden and reserved seating at the symposium. ($200 of this ticket is a contribution to the Hollister House Garden) Strictly limited to 18.

Friend $200 – Hollister House Garden and Garden Conservancy members

Non-members $250

If you must cancel your reservation please notify us as soon as possible so we may make your space available to others. If you notify us before August 1 we will refund your registration less a 25% administrative fee. We can not offer refunds after August 1

Enjoy cocktails in the garden and preview buying at the Sale of Rare and Unusual Plants before the sale is open to the general public on Sunday.

Don’t miss this opportunity to shop for plants suitable for late season planting from some of the Northeast’s premier specialty nurseries.

Vendors include:

Broken Arrow Nursery

Cricket Hill Garden

David Burdick Daffodils and More

Falls Village Flower Farm

Garden Vision Epimediums

Green Spot

Issima

Meadowbrook Gardens

O’Brien Nurserymen

Oesco

Shakespeare’s Garden

Snug Harbor Farm

Young’s at Three Rivers

HHG/GC members $50

Non-members $65

 At the Sale of Rare and Unusual Plants at Hollister House Garden 

• Visit the garden
• Shop for plants suitable for fall planting
• Shop for garden tools and accessories
• Ask an Arborist your questions about caring for trees, shrubs and lawn

Broken Arrow Nursery
Broken Arrow develops and grows rare and unusual trees, shrubs and perennials.  Offering superior quality and expert advice to gardeners and enthusiasts.
Cricket Hill Garden
Growers of rare peonies and unusual fruit trees
David Burdick Daffodils and More
Grower of unique bulbs, perennials and greenhouse tropicals of the highest quality. Sale will feature fall blooming Colchicum
Falls Village Flower Farm
Falls Village Flower Farm is a grower, propagator and retailer bringing over 20 years experience growing the best perennial plants that thrive in our cold climate.
Garden Vision Epimediums
Specialty mail order nursery offering the most extensive selection of shade loving epimediums in the US – over 170 species and varieties
The Green Spot
Organic retail garden center specializing in unique, interesting and unusual plants
Issima
Small specialty nursery specializing in unusual hardy plants
McCue Gardens
Growers of unique and unusual quality perennials, natives and specialty plants for over 50 years.
Meadowbrook Gardens, LLC
Meadowbrook Gardens offers a wide variety of quality native and ornamental plants along with creative design and outstanding landscape installation and maintenance.
Oesco, Inc
Suppliers of tools and equipment for gardeners, growers and groundskeeping professionals since 1954
O’Brien Nursery
Known for their hosta offerings, O’Brien is also a destination for unique shade perennials, a wide selection of conifers, special Japanese maples and dwarf ginkos.
SavATree
SavATree invites garden enthusiasts to bring their landscape questions or concerns. A certified arborist will be on hand to share his knowledge and expertise on topics related to keeping your trees, shrubs and lawn beautiful, healthy and safe.
Shakespeare’s Garden
Unique garden center specializing in plants and garden and home décor. Also offering landscape design, installation and fine gardening
Snug Harbor Farm
Specialty greenhouse and nursery offering topiary along with a selection of cool plants for connoisseurs and indoor gardeners along with treasures from their lifestyle boutique.
ToHo Studio
A new design and fabrication studio located in downtown Torrington, CT. Presenting astroturf indoor/outdoor furniture designed by artist Gerald Incandela
Youngs at Three Rivers Nursery
Fifty -three acre nursery offering field grown and container stock of ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials, landscape design and installation. Specializing in specimen trees.

 Admission $10 per person

This “master class” on dahlias is taught by potter and passionate gardener Frances Palmer.  The illustrated talk will begin with the origin, history and botany of dahlia flower forms. Frances will teach us how to divide,plant,fertilize and stake spring tubers, how to maintain plants over the growing season and how to dig and store for the winter. She will share good sources for tubers and how to best select flowers. Finally Frances will demonstrate how to cut and compose flower arrangements like the stunning ones on her Instagram feed.

Frances Palmer was trained as an art historian. After moving to Connecticut with her young family she took some throwing courses at a nearby art guild and has worked as a potter ever since. When she is not busy at her wheel she is in her magical garden where she grows all the flowers she arranges in her pots.

francespalmerpottery.com

HHG Members $25

Non-members $35

Sermons in Stone is the enthralling story of the stone walls that are everywhere in New England. It is a story that.begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use and by American waves of immigration and suburbanization. In this surprising and illuminating talk Susan Allport will illustrate how these walls are much more than monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers.

Susan Allport is a science writer turned baker whose books have focused on the world around her. Her book, Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York has been praised as a “well-written, fascinating contribution to the region’s social and economic history”

If you follow beloved author and passionate gardener Page Dickey on Instagram you are familiar with the pots of beautiful blooms that decorate Church House in the winter.  In this illustrated talk and demonstration Page will show us that a great variety of the bulbs we buy in the fall can be potted up in October and put somewhere cold (a cold frame, cellar steps, a refrigerator) for about 12 weeks, then brought out to light and sun and coaxed into bloom for the winter months. Less expensive and much more delightful than florist flowers to decorate your house! Page will show you how she has been forcing bulbs for years and she will share her favorite ones.

Page Dickey is a garden writer, lecturer and designer. She serves on the board of directors of the Garden Conservancy where she co-founded the Open Days program in 1995. She is also on the boards of Stonecrop Gardens and Hollister House Garden and was recently elected as an Honorary Member of The Garden Club of America.

Flowering and foliage houseplants thrive outdoors during the summer months and the transition to the indoor home environment for winter can be challenge. In this illustrated talk Barb Pierson will share species specific growing instructions and simple techniques too insure that your favorite plants remain happy all year!

Barbara Pierson graduated form Cornell’s School of  Horticulture with a degree in Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. She is the Nursery Manager at White Flower Farm where she is the face and voice of many of the how-to gardening videos on their website. Her encyclopedic knowledge of ornamentals and edibles mean that her talks are both enormously instructive and highly entertaining.

Autumn in New England is rich with a myriad of brilliant leaves and colorful berries and pods. In this two-day workshop students will draw a variety of seasonal subjects, arrange these elements into a bouquet design and render in watercolor.

All levels welcome.

Limited to 12 students

Please bring a bag lunch. Water, soft drinks and snacks will be provided. A materials list will be emailed with your registration confirmation.

Hollister House Garden members $190

Non-members $230

The watercolor workshops at Hollister House Garden are taught by Betsy Rogers-Knox. Betsy received a Certificate in Botanical Illustration from NYBG in 2006. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and at the Royal Horticultural Botanical Art Show in London where she was awarded the Silver Gilt Award.