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See website for reservations. And Shake on the Lake is August 9! 2024 Tree Peony Festival dates: May 18-19, May 25-26, June 1-2 with pop-up weekday TBA!

A private, historic estate in NY's Genesee Valley, featuring gardens and a tree peony collection. 2026 Tree Peony Festival was wonderful, now we’re on to Open Garden Days. Reservations required, see website beginning in April. See you soon!

09/23/2026

🌾 Last Open Garden Day of the year is Sat. Oct 3, with a guided tour available at 10am!

🏠 The tour is led by a Linwood Gardens family member and will show you all around the house and gardens while sharing personal and historical insights. Contribution of $25 per adult.

✅ Reservations at linwoodgardens.org/open-garden-days

✴️ Hours are 10am-2pm each day, $20 suggested donation per adult (kids are free!).

🧺 Feel free to bring your own food (no alcohol, please), carry in, carry out. There will not be food to purchase on site. Free tap water will be available to refill water bottles.

🍂 Now that it’s fall, the ornamental grasses are tassled and Japanese anemones and zinnias are bursting in the gardens.

🚗 While you’re in the neighborhood, check out these and our other neighbors:

☕️ York Common Grounds has hot coffee, pastries, ready-to-eat lunches, books, and artisan gifts.

🍹 Woodlawn Distilling is practically across the road from Linwood Gardens with a cocktail/mocktail menu and popcorn in their cozy tasting room.

🍳 Blessings Cafe in Pavilion offers breakfast til noon on Saturdays, and BW's has a hearty lunch menu.

See you soon!

08/27/2026

✨Exactly 125 years ago, Harry and Emilie Gratwick chose a spot in Linwood as a summer home and constructed Linwood Gardens. We’re so glad they did!

📖This year, the Gratwicks’ great-great granddaughter Holly Watson completed a new book, “No Small Plans: a History of Linwood Gardens” that explores the eras of the country place and the Gratwick family, from its early heyday to music and art, tree peonies, and current work and stewardship.

🌸Holly will give an overview of Linwood Gardens’ history and discuss the decade-long journey to create this book on Sept 2, 6pm, at Hollwedel Memorial Library in Pavilion.

✔️Free and open to all. No registration required but an RSVP to the library is appreciated.

✍️There will be copies of the book available for sale ($25 each, all proceeds to Linwood Gardens) and Holly will be happy to sign, too!

📚If you can’t make it to this event but would like to pick up a copy of “No Small Plans”, the book is available at the following:

🔹 York Common Grounds in York
🔹 Act 4 Books in Perry
🔹 Sundance Books in Geneseo
🔹 Linwood Gardens on scheduled Open Garden Days (the next are 8/29, 9/5, and 10/3, see linwoodgardens.org/open-garden-days)
🔹 …and Pavilion Hollwedel Library has a copy on their shelves!

🏡 Linwood Gardens is a private residence and a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization operates public events. The property is open to the public only during scheduled events and via pre-arranged group tours. We cannot accommodate individual visit requests outside of these events, thank you for understanding.

❓Questions? Check our website or shoot us a message here!

07/29/2026

☔️ Open Garden Day today amidst the sprinkles!

☁️ Weather forecasts differ, but it doesn’t look like the washout we expected. Perhaps a few sprinkles, just like a Jane Austen novel.

🕰️ We’re here 10am-2pm, come out and enjoy the peaceful gardens on a self-guided stroll. Volunteers and family members will be happy to chat history, plants, art.

✅ Reservations always appreciated at linwoodgardens.org/open-garden-days, but since it’s a slower day, you’re welcome to embrace spontaneity and just pop by.

💙 Suggested donations of $20/adult, kids are free.

07/18/2026

🌼 Open Garden Day July 18 is just about full! If a spot opens up due to a last-minute cancellation, you can grab it, or plan on one of our upcoming dates:

🔹Wed. July 29
🔹Sat. August 29
🔹Sat. September 5
🔹Sat. October 3

✅ Reservations required at linwoodgardens.org/open-garden-days

✴️ These Open Garden Days are for enjoying the gardens in creative ways - have a photoshoot, make art, explore, read, or birdwatch. Hours are 10am-2pm each day, $20 suggested donation per adult (kids are free!).

🧺 Feel free to bring your own food (no alcohol, please), carry in, carry out. There will not be food to purchase on site. Free tap water will be available to refill water bottles.

🚗 While you’re in the neighborhood, check out these and our other neighbors:

🫐 Hill N Hollow U-Pick Blueberry Farm in Pavilion is open for picking for a short delicious season of no-spray berries. So good!

☕️ york_common_grounds has hot coffee, pastries, ready to eat lunches, books, and artisan gifts.

🍹 Woodlawn Distilling is practically across the road from Linwood Gardens and just rolled out a refreshed cocktail menu, plus they always have seasonal specials.

☀️ Summer is really here!

06/27/2026

🎭 Shake on the Lake is bringing “The Comedy of Errors” to Linwood Gardens this summer!

⏰ Sunday, Aug. 9 at 4pm.

⛲️ Doors open at 3pm so you can explore the gardens.

⚡️Free show! Reservations required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-comedy-of-errorslinwood-gardens-tickets-1990957370089?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

👯 The Comedy of Errors is “the Bard’s physical comedy romp about mistaken twin identity filled with hijinks and hilarity.” It’s sure to be energetic and unlike anything else you’ll see this summer!

🌦️ In case of inclement weather, the show will go on just down the road at the Valley View Farm barn.

🍿 If you can’t make this show, there are several other performances to choose from at cool locations all around the Genesee Valley.

06/20/2026

🖊️ Book-signing and hangout today at York Common Grounds with Holly Watson for “No Small Plans: A History of Linwood Gardens.”

🥐 Come pick up your copy, chat with Holly, and check out York Common Grounds during their first anniversary weekend! Book hangout is 10am-12pm today (6/20), but “No Small Plans” will be available at the shop all summer during their open hours.

📖 The book is also available at Linwood Gardens each scheduled Open Garden Day (see website linwoodgardens.org/open-garden-days) and at Sundance Books in Geneseo, with more local spots to come!

06/17/2026

💜 There are still spots for this weekend’s women’s retreat!

👣 Angela Caplan will lead a joyful and rejuvenating afternoon of yoga, creativity, dance, and reflection on Sat. June 20, 1-5pm.

🧘 For more info and to sign up (deadline to register is Thursday), visit www.shaktiyogageneseo.com.

🌞 We’ll see you in the gardens!

06/13/2026

✨ New book about Linwood Gardens just published! ✨

📖 Sixty-one years after Bill Gratwick wrote his classic “My This Must Have Been a Beautiful Place…When It Was Kept Up,” his great-granddaughter Holly Watson has compiled a new book formally documenting the family and property’s story, putting recent decades on paper for the first time.

🌳 “No Small Plans: a History of Linwood Gardens” traces the Gratwick family from 1800s Buffalo to the establishment of Linwood Gardens as a country place and the property’s development up to the present day. Drawing from 125 years of photos and stories, the book helps put Linwood Gardens in its regional and national context.

🪺 Find “No Small Plans” at the following locations this summer:

🔹Linwood Gardens’ events and Open Garden Days (6/19, 7/18, 7/29, 8/29, 9/5, 10/3). Book is $25, all proceeds go directly to support the gardens.

🔹York Common Grounds just down the road. An open-house book-signing and opportunity to chat with Holly will be Sat. June 20, 10am-noon!

🔹 Sundance Books in Geneseo.

🔹Check back in the next few weeks for additional local bookstores and locations to pick up a copy.

🔹 At this time, shipping is not available.

💙 Thank you to all who have contributed to this project!

06/12/2026

💧 Pool day!

…But not the lounging, swimming-type day yet. First the historic pool needed some repairs.

🪏 Winter and water took its toll on the concrete and the walls needed some patching. Several of the nine Gratwick family members living on the property grabbed trowels to help—it’s a group effort to keep a 118-year-old pool swimmable.

⛲️ The c. 1908 swimming pool is an original “garden room” of Linwood Gardens. Few families had in-ground pools in the days before chlorine and effective filtration systems, so this pool is thought to be one of the oldest known pools of its kind in the state, if not the country.

🧽 We still have to pump all the water out each spring and then refill the pool, just like the old days! We do use minimal chlorine now to help keep the water pleasant and clear.

💎 Although the swimming pool is for private use only, visitors to Open Garden Days can view it in context with the other gardens as part of the designed landscape.

Summer Open Garden Days:
🔹Fri. June 19 (guided tour available)
🔹Sat. July 18
🔹Wed. July 29
🔹Sat. August 29
🔹Sat. September 5
🔹Sat. October 3

✅ Reservations required at linwoodgardens.org/open-garden-days. Thanks!

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1912 York Road W
Linwood, NY
14486

Website

http://www.linwoodgardens.org/

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