The Garden Conservancy's

Open Days

Opening America's Best Private Gardens Since 1995

Broccoli Hall

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October 4, 2008
Dan and Jeanne Will_Hedgerows9:00 am - 5:00 pm

The landscape surrounding this nineteenth-century farmhouse unfolds to reveal several acres of gardens with different themes, set in meadows where a flock of sheep graze.

Bunny Williams9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Interior designer and garden book author Bunny Williams’ intensively planted fifteen-acre estate has a sunken garden with twin perennial borders surrounding a fishpond, a parterre garden, a year-round conservatory filled with tender plants, a large vegetable garden with flowers and herbs, a woodland garden with meandering paths, and a pond with a waterfall.

Broccoli Hall9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Visitors to Broccoli Hall describe this English-style cottage garden as “incredible,” “inspirational,” “magical”—and they come back again and again.

Phillis Warden9:00 am - 5:00 pm

This garden of many facets includes perennial borders, two water gardens, a formal vegetable garden, wildflower garden, fern garden, marsh garden, tree platform overlooking the marshlands, woodland walk, a hidden garden, and formal croquet court.

Page Dickey and Francis Schell_Duck Hill9:00 am - 5:00 pm

At Duck Hill, a series of hedged-in gardens are related to the nineteenth-century farmhouse they surround.

Lynn and Jack Cavo9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A ten-year-old meandering bluestone walk leads past azaleas, rhododendrons and various groundcovers to the front door, then continues on to a shade garden, anchored by a newly planted oxydendron.

Nancy McCabe9:00 am - 5:00 pm

This garden was begun in 1980.

Footnote

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