For the 2011 tour, coordinators Gill Mader and Laura Seitz selected a wide variety of landscape settings, including a small village yard with a combination of native, vegetable, herb, and flower plantings; an artist’s larger English garden of berry bushes and flowering shrubs; historic acreage studded with rose bushes, gazebos and a spreading orchard and the organic Croton Community Garden, established two years ago and cooperatively developed with the Croton village government.

The gardens shown here belong to Dana and Tad Holland, Francine and Jeffrey Kadish, Donna Lassiter, Stephanie and John Pisciotta, Marilyn and Arnold Miller and the Croton Community Garden

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Photos by Dianna Smith.

For the 2010 tour, coordinators Gill Mader and Laura Seitz selected a wide variety of landscape settings at a half a dozen new local sites. These included Croton village vegetable and flower gardens and several nearby town properties offering a variety of organic vegetable plots, diverse flower displays, and a hillside slope of grasses.

The gardens shown here belong to April and James Benson, Robin Lynn and Larry Blumberg, Greg and Gwen Kaebnick, Birgit and Bill Robinson and Carol and Gary Tozzi.

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Photos by Martin Smolin and Frances Allen.