The 21st annual WHS Garden Tour, Sunday June 3, 10 am to 4 pm
Garden Marketplace, 9 am to 5 pm
Toast The Tour After Party, 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
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Gardens to view include: an intimate, hands-on garden in an Arts & Crafts home setting; three different gardens in a row on one street from hands-on to a more formal English garden; a large, elegant garden in a Georgian home setting. A bonus stop is at Adams Academy where refreshments will be served and Westport history will be on display.
At the Garden Marketplace on Veterans Green, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., an interesting variety of artisan crafts and garden-related products will be available for purchase. Artisans included will be: Anita Designs, Stella & Dot Jewelry, Cynthia Alexander, Catch All, Jean Forte Gifts, RF Steelwerks, LLC, From my neighbor’s garden, Scanner Photography, A Charmed Life, Common Good Market, Bulabula Fashions, The Olive Oil Factory, M. Saverine Decoupage. Christie’s Country Store will sell food, there will be pony rides for the kids and live entertainment throughout the day.
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An ecclectic array of gardens await you:
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HEIRLOOM PLEASURES
Nestled below the crest of a knoll, veiled by border fences, trellises and pergola, shaded byConnecticut’s second oldest white oak, and anchoredby a gracious1900 arts & crafts homestead, these gardens unfold like lines
of verse. Follow grasses, heirloom roses, peonies, hydrangea, pachysandra, river birch, lilies of the valley and hellebores to the sunken and blue gardens.
EXTRAORDINARY ENGLISH PROMENADE
Expect to be delighted by the thoughtful, sumptuous complexity and expanse of these terraced gardens and lawns. Perambulating the quadrilateral paths, narrated by boxwood, holly, and stonework, punctuated by dwarfed cherries and tree hydrangeas, beneath pergolas of climbing roses and clematis, with plot twists provided by a large deck, pool, sunken tennis court and distant untamed wetlands, satisfies like reading a great novel.
CURVILINEAR COUNTERPOINT
Contiguous gardens in an elegant neighborhood complement each other,afford fresh angles for cross-viewing over hedges, fences and lawns and demonstrate the rich variety of landscaping solutions for the same terrain.This property’s sweeping, curvilinear lawns, specimen trees—especially the ancient apple fronting the house—along with spaced plantings of rhododendrons,azaleas, Japanese maples, pachysandra and box, express a melodic freedom.
DIAGONAL BY DESIGN
“Three’s the charm” among this special neighborhood’s contiguous gardens.Most of the burgeoning perennials here—cat mint, lady’s mantle, irises, tiger lilies, poppies, hemerocallis, foxglove, peonies, creeping jenny are home-grown from seed or cuttings. Planted in rhythmic sequence, they guide visitors down the long driveway, then diagonally left across the front to the gardens beyond. Don’t miss the topiary archway of snowball viburnum, tied together.
SEQUENTIAL SPLENDOR
Tall dwarf lilac and boxwood hedges and rolling lawns escort the eye’s graceful descent to this Georgian manor , but dominant verticals–the weeping katsuras at the corners and purple columnar beeches flanking the front portico–command focus. In back, magnificent terraced and boxed gardens of viburnum, astilbe, lilies and hybrid roses surround the vanishing edge pool, as trained apple trees grow in flat profile against the barn. Unforgettable!
The Toast the Tour after-party will be held in an antique post & beam barn, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. There will be wine tasting courtesy of Fountainhead Wines, delicious appetizers, and a silent auction of interesting goods & services.
Ticket prices: $35 for members & $45 for nonmembers if purchased in advance; $50 day of tour. Toast the Tour tickets $50 or buy on linie at www.westporthistory.org
All tickets to be picked up at the Historical Society on Sunday June 3, starting at 9:00 a.m.
