​2024 Mountain Garden Walks Highlights:



​The 2024 garden tour provided an opportunity to experience the peace and quiet of landscapes in Landgrove with views of the mountains to frame each property in the midst of Vermont’s Green Mountains. Our tour visitors discovered:
  • Gardens beautifully integrated into their unique properties and scaled to fit the landscapes. Large gardens with a full palette of color and scent of perennial gardens along brooks and ponds 
    • Japanese Tree Lilacs turning to a majestic white
    • Heptacodium with pink blossoms glowing against exfoliating bark
    • Dwarf Sargent Crab Apple trees, purple beech (Fagus “Tortuosa Purpurea”)
  • Elegant Birch and Sugar Maple trees alongside raspberry and blueberry shrubs
  • A canvas of deep pink, purple and red blossoms to entice insects, birds, bees and butterflies: Hollyhocks, Poppies, Phlox Echinacea and Shasta Daisies.
  • Each setting was highlighted with meadow and mountain vistas. Stone walls and terraces as well as evergreen trees provide unique backdrops for these wonderful gardens.
  • Views of Stratton, Bromley and Mount Snow
  • The tour offered inspiration and beauty to both the avid gardener and the viewer simply out for a summer stroll. 
The tour included renovated barns and farmhouses to capture the history and special environment of Landgrove. One of the properties was the site of the log cabin of Captain William Utley who led efforts to settle the village and established the town charter in 1780.  
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We look forward to our Mountain Garden Walks tentatively scheduled for July 2026.

2021 Mountain Garden Walks Highlights:

  • Mature perennial and wildflower gardens, a haying field with paths for walks and picnicking, a meandering artisan-well stream and a river winding through low-lying fields.
  • Norway Spruce and Green Giant Arborvitae as a natural border and a walkway formed by Freedom Maples.  
  • An enlarged pond that welcomes wildlife; plantings to nurture bees, butterflies and hummingbirds; plum trees, apple trees, blueberry bushes and a kiwi vine provide beauty and nourishment.
  • Peony and hydrangea hedges and a rhododendron garden designed to create intimate spaces.
  • Small-scale working sheep farm that captures a mix of the practical and the artistic of farming and gardening to provide organic vegetables, eggs and meat as well as abundant wool.
  • Abundant lilacs, rhubarb, lemon lilies and an ancient Maple that capture the heritage and early cultivation of a working Vermont farm.
  • An expansive garden of cutting flowers and vegetables — a mix and match of plants and flowers that demonstrate an ever-changing and expanding flow of ideas about gardening.
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