Stonecrop Gardens
 Stonecrop Gardens | |
| Formation | 1992 |
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| Founder | Frank Cabot |
| Type | Nonprofit public garden |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 41°26′33″N 73°52′09″W / 41.44250°N 73.86917°W |
Membership | The Garden Conservancy |
Key people | Caroline Burgess |
| Website | www |
Stonecrop Gardens is a public garden in Cold Spring, New York, U.S. Formerly the home of Anne and Frank Cabot, the founder of The Garden Conservancy, the ground became a public garden in 1992, directed by Caroline Burgess. A variety of gardens include woodland and water gardens, a bamboo grove, stone beds with alpine flowers, systematic flower beds and an enclosed English flower garden.[1]
History
[edit]Stonecrop Gardens began as the private property of garden designers Anne and Frank Cabot, who built a manor house as their private residence, in Cold Spring, New York, in 1958.[2] Frank Cabot founded The Garden Conservancy in 1989[3] and after his death the property was passed to a nonprofit corporation, which uses the house as the headquarters for running the gardens.[2][1]
Commissioned by the Cabots, the English horticulturalist Caroline Burgess helped, from the mid-1980s, to transform the gardens to a public garden which was opened in 1992. She has remained the director and kept diversifying the display gardens.[3][1] The gardens are shown on tours among other public gardens of the area.[4]
Gardens
[edit]Stonecrop Gardens are located in the Hudson Highlands at a height of 1,100 feet (340 m).[1] They show, across an area of 12 acres (4.9 ha),[1][3] a variety of landscape gardens and a vegetable garden. They are reached by an unpaved road.[2]
The grounds include woodland and water gardens, a grass garden and a bamboo grove, a rock garden and stone beds with alpine flowers and flower beds of perennials.[2] Blooming plants include Ruta graveolens, Salvia uliginosa and Oxypetalum coeruleum.[2] Systematic order flower beds show more than 50 plant families. An enclosed English flower garden,[1] called "inner sanctum", is enclosed by walls covered with shrubs and roses.[2] Beds of lilies show more than 75 varieties in many colors and shapes. A vegetable garden is protected by a scarecrow named Miss Gertrude Jekyll, after the garden designer who created more than 400 gardens in Europe, especially the UK, and the U.S.[2] The gardens also feature a conservatory and a "display alpine house".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Stonecrop Gardens". Garden Directory. Garrison, NY: The Garden Conservancy. 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dobrzynski, Judith H. (July 13, 2007). "The Hudson Valley's Fields of Joy". The New York Times. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ a b c Cary, Bill (August 24, 2017). "Fall ideal time to visit Cold Spring's Stonecrop Gardens". Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ Croke, Karen (May 27, 2016). ""Secret Garden" tour set for June 4 in Putnam County". The Journal News. White Plains, NY: Lohud.com. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
External links
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- Official website
- Stonecrop Gardens publicgardens.org
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