Garden Tour: Formal Borders

Behind the border of flowering shrubs and trees that lines the roadside, lies an Arts and Crafts-style house and garden built in 1908. With a few liberties, the owners have recreated the original garden designed by Marian Coffin, restoring the small, formal parterre extending south from the house and executing the large double border below the west side of the house with the help of an early working plan. A half moon of dwarf and semi-dwarf evergreens, created to take advantage of the serendipitous gift of many specimens, is developing into a magnificent screen embracing an additional perennial bed.

Park on the road and walk down the driveway to the house. Some steps.