Clove Brook Farm bios

The garden at Clove Brook Farm is relatively new, first designed by P. Allen Smith in collaboration with Christopher Spitzmiller and has quickly become a popular Open Days destination. As a potter, Christopher says, he is motivated by the notion of making something beautiful out of a mound of ordinary clay, and he applies the same passion to his love of gardening. The first garden at Clove Brook was finished in 2014 and is now dubbed the Dovecote Garden in honor of the octagonal dovecote that was constructed as its focal point.

A more recent addition was the creation of a large rectangular garden that encloses a swimming pool and pool house, a building that is Christopher’s take on a neoclassical folly but is adorned in fallow deer antlers. Christopher is sharing some of his adventures working in the garden through In My Garden posts.  

Anthony Bellomo is a registered landscape architect and has been a garden enthusiast his entire life, learning much from his grandfather and father, both of whom were avid gardeners. He has practiced landscape architecture for nearly 20 years, with his main professional focus being on the design of public parks and open space. In his free time at home, he loves nothing more than to be "lost in the garden," endlessly weeding, shaping, and starting new projects. His latest project at Clove Brook Farm was the design and implementation of a large Kitchen Garden; next, he plans to begin a woodland garden that favors native plants along the property's namesake Clove Brook.