Old Farm Nursery Home Garden

About

Our garden is a series of outdoor rooms and sweeping borders planted over the last 36 years, occupying a 3-acre area of an old 18-acre farm property. The gardens include our 1800s house, barns, pool, orchard, vegetable gardens, flower and shrub borders. There is a white garden, kitchen garden, a red border, dwarf apple allee, woodland walk, secret garden swimming pool and pool house, herb beds, mixed borders, undulating arborvitae hedges and vistas of the southern Berkshires. I was trained in landscape architecture at Cornell. I have been designing (and we have been installing) gardens and landscapes for 36 years (Old Farm Nursery) before retiring from the retail nursery business this year. Our younger son and I continue doing garden design and installation, but we no longer have a retail nursery. However, my husband and I would love to share our gardens with people who have enjoyed them over the years as well as many others who have never seen them before. My style could be described as relaxed plantings within a more classic and structured order. So, there is balance and some symmetry that then marries into more organic curves as the gardens connect to the surrounding context of the farmland. Within the structured arrangements, though they are balanced, there is a sense of informality and even a bit of chaos. This has helped us minimize maintenance in what is otherwise a very high maintenance landscape. The forms are familiar, but the content doesn’t take itself wildly seriously and the results can be a lot of fun.

This garden’s estimated size is 3 acres.

2025 Open Day:  Sunday, July 20

Hours: 10-4

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