BELFAST – The Belfast Garden Club will again sponsor its “Open Garden Days” this spring and summer.

Eighteen private gardens will be open to the public, one each week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, May 9, through Sept. 19. At some, visitors will be offered refreshments, while at others they will get a chance to learn a new technique or hear about design decisions, color choices or experiments with new plants.

Gardens this year range from long-established, formal plantings at waterfront homes to newly created kitchen gardens wild with fruiting vines, herbs and vegetables.

One offering, an English-style perennial garden, displays iron and stonework in a series of outdoor living spaces. Another, recently planted, attracts wildlife and birds to a small pond surrounded by perennial beds and native plants.

Also among the gardens this year are a terraced hillside overlooking the harbor, a cutting garden with varieties both classic and heirloom, a day lily collection paired with hostas, and an in-town lot swathed with 800 bulbs that will be bursting into bloom in May.

Fliers about Open Garden Days available at Belfast businesses will list all dates and addresses. A more extensive brochure with directions to each garden and a map will be available at Belfast’s Post Office Square.

Donation of $3 per person is requested to benefit the Belfast Civic Beautification projects at the Belfast Free Library, Town Wharf, City Hall, Belfast Museum, City Park Crabapple Allee and Pavilion, the chapel at the town cemetery and Post Office Square. A 10-visit ticket is available for $20 from garden club members at each open garden and on Saturday, May 17, at two events: the annual garden club plant sale at the Belfast Boathouse and the women’s health fair at the Hutchinson Center on Route 3.

For information, visit belfastgardenclub.org or call chairwoman Martha Block at 338-0085.