The Garden Conservancy's

Open Days

Opening America's Best Private Gardens Since 1995

Garden at 88 Mercedes Lane, Atherton. Photo by Kristin Davis.

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August 3, 2008
Willard and Rose Skagen Stroll Garden and Nature Preserve10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A love of plants has led to a twelve-acre garden which is home to an extensive collection of trees, shrubs, and other plants.

R. Thomas Schoonmaker10:00 am - 4:00 pm

This garden was the winner of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Award Winner for "Very Large Individual Flower Garden"in 2000.

Playful Pine Street Gardens10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Planting this garden, as well as restoring a circa 1890s Victorian house, has been this family's adventure for the past thirty years.

88 Mercedes Lane11:00 am - 3:00 pm

This beautiful suburban garden is blessed with magnificent specimen camellias, rhododendrons, and a myriad of spectacular trees: heritage oaks, rare horsechestnut, giant persimmon, two types of edible apple, crabapple, dogwood, hawthorne and flowering cherry, to name a few.

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