MATTAPOISETT — Six homes in Mattapoisett opened their gardens to the public on a rainy Saturday, June 24 as a part of the Mattapoisett Woman’s Club’s “June in Bloom” garden tour.

From a green and white monochromatic garden to a carefully planned and cared for geometric garden on the water, the 2023 tour had “some beautiful gardens, very colorful,” said Mattapoisett Woman’s Club volunteer Eileen Marum.

All proceeds from the tour went toward the Mattapoisett Woman’s Club’s scholarship program.

Four gardens on the tour were in Mattapoisett village. At 3 Pearl Street, owner and gardener Lorri Woodacre has “lived in a lot of places in the South” like Alabama, Tennessee and Charlston and used that experience to create her garden.

An arrangement of boxwood near the top of her garden is “an ode to Charleston,” she said.

“It’s a trend right now in the nation in gardening — green and white.” she said. “This is monochromatic and is green all year long.”

Woodacre’s garden features hostas, rose of Sharon and pergola with edible concord grapes.

“It’s very easy maintenance, I’m very busy,” she said. “It’s important that you plant things that are perennials and are easy maintenance.”

Heading East on Water Street, participants on the garden tour found the “Titanium House” and the expansive garden behind the property.

“We built this from scratch, from absolute scratch,” said owner and gardener Ruth Jolliffe. “We had a really good time … and then little by little we built all the structures ourselves and … it is a mirror of our house.”

Jolliffe tends the garden herself including its fruits and vegetables, roses, Japanese garden and “AlphaBed,” an alphabetically ordered line of plants and flowers.

“The creatures have been messing with the AlphaBed,” she said, adding that the fence around the garden bed is built to follow the “golden ratio.”

The garden also features ponds complete with hopping frogs and lilypads.

Away from Mattapoisett Village, potter and painter Kim Barry had a garden full of sculptures, art and chickens.

“I think that [my garden] has evolved over the years,” said Barry. “I lived in this house for about 36 years and when I had young kids I had a very small garden and not a lot going on and I [have since] had more time to dedicate to planting.”

According to Barry, the garden, which features beds of perennials, shade plants, herbs and vegetables, is a team effort.

“My husband really got excited about mulching,” she said of her husband, fellow artist Adrian Tió. “He likes to weed and mow and I like to just plant things. We’re a good combo, he’s the detail guy.”

The front garden at Barry’s home has a pattern of red mulch that winds through a base layer of brown mulch.

In addition to showing off her garden, Barry opened her at-home art studio to visitors and sold pottery and paintings.