The 2016 Open Garden Days presented by the Belfast Garden Club will offer an array of places for the public to stroll this summer on Fridays, from June 17 to August 12. Gardens will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine.

June 17 opens the series at 58 Church Street in Belfast, where Tom and Alicia Stevenson have transformed a parking lot into a formal garden, with flowing fountain, stone walks and scented flowers. The first floor of the house will be open, as well.

June 24 features the Block property at 1485 Atlantic Highway in Northport. Sunny gardens and a rolling lawn offer a spot where you can bring a picnic and enjoy the water view. The first floor of the house will be open.

There is no garden on July 1.

July 8 is the Woolsey garden at 37 George Street in the Bayside neighborhood of Northport, where rustic trellises support 10 varieties of clematis, and a shade garden features Maine favorites.

July 15 features the Jones garden at 58 Cobb Road in Belfast, where a riotous array of flowers turns town into country, and wisteria vines provide shade and a screen for the hot tub.

July 22 is the Fotterall garden at 71 Bayview Street in Belfast. the front garden unfolds behind a stonewall along the street, and the terraced back yard stars more stonewalls and stone steps, softened by well-placed annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees.

July 29 is the Rogals garden at 387 High Street in Belfast. Owned by a professional gardener, it is filled with examples of problem solving and creativity, and strikes a visual balance between form and function.

August 5 is the Trotochaud and McDowell garden at 103 Northport Road in Belmont. See the couple's 17 fruit and vegetable beds, grape arbor, reflecting pool and chicken coop. The pottery studio will be open.

August 12 is an open house and garden on Penobscot Bay, at 3 John Robinson Way in Belfast, with a tranquil garden, stunning view and the mingling aromas of evergreens, blossoms and ocean air.

A $5 donation is requested at each location (or one can buy a strip of eight for $30 at Left Bank Books in Belfast. Proceeds help the Club maintain 12 public gardens and give two annual scholarships to Waldo County youth studying "green" fields.

Driving directions and fuller garden descriptions are posted at BelfastGardenClub.org. For more information, contact Martha Laitin at 323-2368.