Visit two private gardens in Stonington, open for self-guided tours to benefit the Garden Conservancy, beginning at 10 a.m. (ending times vary). No reservations required; rain or shine.

Highlights include fifty-foot weeping cherries and other specimen trees, a walk-in root cellar, a century-old boxwood hedge that is one-quarter-mile long, rose arbors, and a perennial cutting garden.

Admission is $10 per garden; children 12 and under free. Begin at Stone Acres Farm or see www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days for additional locations.