Beatrix Farrand Garden

Will Be Open To The Public

BRIDGEWATER — Promisek at Three Rivers Farm will open the Beatrix Farrand Garden to the public for the first time this season on Sunday, May 30, from 10 am to 4 pm. The garden will be open on the last month May through September.

The garden will also participate in Connecticut Historic Gardens Day on July 18 from 1 to 4 pm. On this day the Beatrix Farrand Garden and eight other historic gardens throughout Connecticut will be open to celebrate the preservation of gardens of varying styles and time periods.

In 1921 Beatrix Farrand, a founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, designed the garden for Dr Frederick Peterson, a noted New York neurologist, who entertained family, friends and clients on the 300 acre property, situated at the confluence of the Shepaug and Housatonic rivers, and which he called Three Rivers Farm.

By the time its present owner, the nonprofit Promisek Incorporated, acquired the property in 1978 all traces of the garden’s former glory had been buried under years of overgrowth. In 1992 Roxbury resident and sleuthing garden historian Pamela Edwards rediscovered the historic value of the walled garden and a restoration began using the plan found in the Farrand archives at the University of California at Berkeley.

Promisek at Three Rivers Farm is located at 694 Skyline Ridge Road in Bridgewater. Signs will be posted to help drivers find the main entrance. A $5 per person donation is suggested.

For directions or more information call 860-354-1788.