Innisfree Garden

Public Garden Partner: Recognized as one of the “world’s ten best gardens,”* Innisfree is a powerful icon of twentieth-century landscape design. Over fifty years in the making, it is largely the work of landscape architect Lester Collins, FASLA (1914–1993), with important contributions by his clients, artist and teacher Walter Beck and gardener and heiress Marion Burt Beck. Innisfree merges the essence of Modernist ideas and traditional Chinese and Japanese garden design principles with a nuanced reading of its glacial landscape. The result is a distinctly American stroll garden on 185 acres surrounding a large, shimmering lake — a sublime composition of rock, water, wood and sky.

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