This garden is in a very pastoral setting to begin with along Route 279, and the entrance is calming seeing the meadows and trees. It leads up to a great visitor center, with an AMAZING stained glass dome inside (look up once inside the doors!) THere's a garden shop and it seems many rent the central hall for wedding receptions often.\r
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The White Garden is a terrific enclosed courtyard (where the wedding was going on), and there are 2 long Color Arbors with great combinations of plants and vines on the support columns.\r
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Can't forget to mention FOUNTAINS!!!! Love the sight and sounds of them across the grounds. I think the most dramatic is what is called the Canal Garden. A very long vista of perennials and tropical looking plants along a water canal with sculptures. At the end is another fountain. Very pleasing to the eye, and plants are labelled so you can figure out what it is you're looking at. I didn't know there were that many hardy palms.\r
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They are building a large conservat
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