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Just 12 acres, Stonecrop might seem at first like a little gem. But it’s really a vault full of jewels, all the more surprising because you approach it on an unpaved road.
Inside, surrounding a country manor house built in 1958 by Anne and Frank Cabot and now owned by a nonprofit corporation, are thickets of blooms — a few are salvia uliginosa, ruta graveolens, tweedia caerulea and dozens more on a handout lists running several single-spaced pages. You are in another world, not least because Stonecrop changes dramatically as you walk from one area to the next. One minute you’re in a bamboo grove so thick you have to hold back the branches; the next, on a rocky ledge amid teeny alpine blossoms of brilliant red, purple and pink.
One highlight is the “inner sanctum” in a lattice design. Around the walls are shrubs, grasses and roses, framing beds filled with changing displays. In mid-July the day lily collection is in full bloom, with more than 75 varieties in colors from dark purple-maroon to dusky peach and soft yellow. Charmingly, there’s also a vegetable garden. It’s watched over by an obese burlap scarecrow nicknamed Miss Gertrude Jekyll after the influential garden designer who created more than 400 gardens in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States.
Inside, surrounding a country manor house built in 1958 by Anne and Frank Cabot and now owned by a nonprofit corporation, are thickets of blooms — a few are salvia uliginosa, ruta graveolens, tweedia caerulea and dozens more on a handout lists running several single-spaced pages. You are in another world, not least because Stonecrop changes dramatically as you walk from one area to the next. One minute you’re in a bamboo grove so thick you have to hold back the branches; the next, on a rocky ledge amid teeny alpine blossoms of brilliant red, purple and pink.
One highlight is the “inner sanctum” in a lattice design. Around the walls are shrubs, grasses and roses, framing beds filled with changing displays. In mid-July the day lily collection is in full bloom, with more than 75 varieties in colors from dark purple-maroon to dusky peach and soft yellow. Charmingly, there’s also a vegetable garden. It’s watched over by an obese burlap scarecrow nicknamed Miss Gertrude Jekyll after the influential garden designer who created more than 400 gardens in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States.
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The article doesn't mention Kykuit, which can be coordinated with a trip to these gardens, or a visit to Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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