Brunel Park: Brunel Sculpture Garden

Brunel Park: Brunel Sculpture Garden is also hosting a Digging Deeper on Saturday, June 3: A Naturalistic Edible Landscape in an Artist-Built Environment

Multifaceted naturalistic garden with terrain changes, several garden rooms spanning various sun and shade areas, and a slew of unusual specimen fruit trees, vines, and shrubs that combine to create a magical garden environment on 1.3 compact acres planted between and among a collection of century-old figurative and narrative concrete statuary that is significant as an Artist Built Environment conceived and constructed by Emile Brunel between 1929 and 1940. The Alsatian-style house is surrounded by pea gravel and bluestone pathways through iris, geranium, lilies, and European hornbeam. Prized tree peonies lead the way to a formal boxwood herb garden with phlox and foxglove which then transitions to a rhododendron slope underplanted with hellebores and other groundcovers. Up the white pine root stairs is a level sunny garden with several pollinator beds, a hardy kiwi pergola and the newest additions-two Czech crevice gardens and a native plants bed devoted to attracting pollinators. The native plant pollinator garden at the front of the visitor center is in full glory in late summer and early fall. Brunel Sculpture Garden is located inside the National Register of Historic Places listed Brunel Park, a community-based education and cultural center, managed by the Friends of Brunel Park, an all-volunteer, non-profit organization.

Complement your Open Day with a visit to this nearby public garden.  For more information about this garden, please visit their website at https://www.brunelpark.org/