OPEN DAYS

The 2022 Open Days season was a tremendous success! For over 25 years, Open Days the Conservancy’s most well-known and beloved public program has introduced over 1.35 million people to more than 4,000 private gardens, fostering a love of gardening and the natural world. This experience exposes guests not only to the beauty of the spaces, but to some of the most innovative examples of garden design and sustainable practices. The Open Days network of hosts and guests has created a national community of informed, passionate, and inventive gardeners who share a common value that gardens are intrinsic to our culture, our history, and our quality of lives

We are delighted to share that the Open Days program has fully recovered from any lingering effects of the COVID-19 crisis, having regained in 2022 the numbers from pre-pandemic seasons The popularity we are seeing for Open Days (and gardens more broadly) is truly extraordinary; the pandemic showed just how essential gardens and beautiful green spaces are to our communities

This ever-growing enthusiasm for Open Days is evident in our 2022 visitation numbers: there were 241 visiting opportunities in 20 states, and over 30,000 tickets were sold!

New in 2022, we also introduced free-formembers Open Days visiting opportunities We held 11 of these events around the country, with 2,000 attendees These free days were a part of our effort to thank our members, and to kickstart the program after the worst of the pandemic