June 22, 2011

Note: this listing includes a few garden properties connected with the Garden Conservancy's preservation work in one way or another, or with our Open Days program. It is provided as a courtesy to our network and in support of the idea of preserving gardens. It is by no means comprehensive or complete.

 

Posted April 24, 2012

Two properties that have been part of our Open Days program are listed for sale.

 

54 Huckleberry Lane, New Canaan, Connecticut

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A four-bedroom family home nestled in two manicured acres. The beautiful woodland shade garden has been included in the Garden Conservancy's Open Days program. For more information, please contact Melissa Rwambuya at the William Raveis agency at telephone 203.966.3555 or e-mail melissa.rwambuya@raveis.com.

 

 

28 Pamela Lane, New Rochelle, New York

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Here's a description from the owners: "We started work on our mature main garden more than thirty-five years ago. It is framed in back by a rocky outcropping and features a waterfall, specimen plantings, and a pond-like free-form swimming pool with another, smaller waterfall. The obvious Asian feel includes statuary and stands of bamboo. Below and behind is a lower garden created from an old, abandoned railroad cut, which provides a quiet refuge from the bustle of nearby city streets. Bordering a dry streambed are impressive rock formations and terraced shrubs, perennials, and grasses. To the right of our main garden, there is a woodland garden approached through an unusual gate and allée. Rock-lined paths wander through a canopy of mature trees interspersed with native flora that we have preserved, as well as other interesting shrubs and shade perennials." 

 

For more information about this property in New Rochelle, please contact the owners, Nina and Ron Spiro, at telephone 914.576.6510 or e-mail ronspiro@verizon.net.

 

 

Posted December 3, 2010:

 

 

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World-renowned Heronswood Gardens, a fifteen-acre enclave in Kingston, Washington, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, features a famous seven-acre garden with more than 10,000 plants of 5,000 species collected from remote regions around the globe. Once the home and nursery of plant collector Daniel J. Hinkley and his partner, architect Robert Jones, Heronswood Gardens has been carefully maintained since 2006 by horticulturists working with W. Atlee Burpee & Co., owner of the site since 2000.

 

The plantings include a core garden within a shady woodland, several sunny rock gardens, a traditional double perennial border, and a formal vegetable garden with hand-laid rock paths. French parterres, a long Chinese pergola, and several ponds and terraces surround the main house. The estate’s iconic feature is a two-roomed Gothic style “house” topiary made of European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus fastigiata). In addition to the main cottage, which was renovated by Robert Jones, the property includes several other residences, a two-story utility and office building, and several monumental Little and Lewis sculptures.

 

“We hope to sell it only to someone who loves it as much as we do and agrees to maintain the living work of art that spreads over seven acres,” says George Ball, Burpee’s chairman.
For more information, contact Hans Miller at 215.674.4900 x1376 or email HMILLER@burpee.com.

 

Posted November 2, 2010:

 

Loomis Creek

 

Loomis Creek Nursery, Hudson, New York, was developed and owned by Bob Hyland and Andrew Beckman, who participated in the Garden Conservancy's Open Days program from 2004 to 2008. The property and business are for sale through Gary DiMauro Real Estate, agent Kathy Duffy, at telephone 518.822.0800 x11. See www.loomiscreek.com for more information or www.garydimauro.com under “commercial” and “country” property listings.

 


Posted August 27, 2010:

 

    

Frog Landing

 

Frog Landing, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, is newly on the market. A classically inspired house set in two plus acres of coastal woods, Frog Landing was built in 2002 by designer, writer, and horticulturist Nan Sinton. The garden plan is an open, sun-filled core surrounded by cool shade. Native trees and shrubs form the clipped structure for a patterned viewing garden, a “green” room, and a formal allée. A hidden flower enclosure displays luxuriant tropicals; a vegetable and cutting garden is convenient to the house, and a series of shaded woodland walks—the cool “bosco” of the historic sixteenth-century gardens—is planted with native viburnums, clethra, holly, magnolias, and ferns. The garden, part of the 2010 Open Days program, was also featured in the August-September 2008 issue of Horticulture magazine. Contact: Maggie Tomkiewicz, 508.525.6489, Maggie@Milburyre.com, www.milburyre.com

 


Posted April 2010:

Click here for a PDF of the Spring 2010 Garden Conservancy News listing of distinguished properties for sale in the spring of 2010.

 

They include:

 

Harland Hand Memorial Garden, El Cerrito, California

 

Historic Cedaridge Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

 

Berry Botanic Garden, Portland, Oregon

 

John and Penelope Maynard Garden, Bedford, New York

 

Pam Proctor Garden, Englewood, New Jersey