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Blue Flag Farm

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April 27, 2008
Silas Mountsier10:00 am - 4:00 pm

With the help of Seattle landscape gardener Richard Hartlage, my garden has more than doubled in size to two and one-half acres. I like architectural drifts of plants and the interplay ...

Ice Pond Farm_Dick Button10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Ice Pond Farm has some interesting topography. It has a valley with an ice pond that sometimes gets black ice and a stone wall that pretends it’s a roller coaster. It has an icehouse, smokehouse,…

Duck Hill_Page Dickey and Francis Schell10:00 am - 4:00 pm

At Duck Hill, a series of hedged-in gardens are related to the nineteenth-century farmhouse they surround. They include an herb garden, a white garden, and a crabapple courtyard, all described in…

Graeme Hardie10:00 am - 4:00 pm

New Jersey? When you step into my garden, you are transported to a world far from what most imagine is a “typical” New Jersey garden. I call it my “jungle.” This is a forty-by sixty-foot walled contemporary…

Blue Flag Farm10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Blue Flag Farm, named for the masses of Iris versicolor in the pastures, is an old New England farm. An eighteenth-century Cape Cod-style house next to the Pendleton Hill Brook overlooks stone walls…

Perrin Garden10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A curved driveway partially lined with bottlebrush buckeye and fragrant sumac leads to a rise revealing an English-style country house surrounded by formal gardens. Visitors pass through a series of…

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