Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops and miniature hostas. For catalogues and announcements of events, please send your full name, location, and phone number (for back up use only) to carolyn@carolynsshadegardens.com. Click here to get to the home page of our website for catalogues and information about our nursery and to subscribe to our blog.
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The newly built Arts and Crafts style house at the final garden on the tour is reached via a long drive ending in an elaborate stone bridge and pond.
This post is the fourth in a series of posts on the Camden House and Garden Tour put on annually in mid-July by the Camden Garden Club. To read the first three posts, click here, here, and here. Next year’s tour is on July 16, 2015, and will consist of historic houses in Camden.
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The entrance walk crosses a large stone slab that acts as a bridge over a boulder strewn stream.
The final garden that I am profiling surrounds a new over-the-top Arts and Crafts style house built half way up Mt. Battie overlooking Camden Harbor. We were transported up a steep drive to the property in chauffeur-driven golf carts, passing through extensive plantings surrounding large boulders. At the top, a beautiful stone bridge brings visitors to the impressive front entrance. I will let the photos and captions tell the rest of the story:
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The entrance path
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An elegant planter on the entrance walk.
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A man made stream runs along the front of the house under the entrance path.
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The stream ends in this pool. Behind it you can see the stone bridge and above that the guest house.
Although we were not allowed to take photos inside the house, I did take some shots from the master bedroom balcony:
Hillside perennial garden with native woods in the background.
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Looking down from the balcony onto the pool area.
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View of Camden Harbor from the master bedroom.
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Stone path leading around to the back of the house.
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The tour brochure states that “the garden encompasses more than 5,000 trees and plants”, and every one of them was perfect, no brown leaves, no spent flowers, no unhappy plants.
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Looking up from the lawn area to the perennial gardens on the back side of the house.
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Everything about this property was massive, including the stairs from the lawn to the back terrace.
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Another gorgeous view from the back terrace.
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A plant that caught my eye ‘Fan Scarlet’ lobelia.
Just like everything else, the pool was over the top so I thought you would like to see a few shots:
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Granite boulders were incorporated into the design.
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In the last post in this series, I intend (if I have enough good photos) to show you some of the non-garden sights in the Camden-Rockport area and recommend a few wonderful restaurants.
Carolyn
Nursery Happenings: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is closed for the summer and will reopen in early September. If you are within visiting distance of the nursery and would like to receive catalogues and information about customer events, please send your full name and phone number to carolynsshadegardens@verizon.net. Subscribing to my blog does not sign you up to receive this information.
Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a local retail nursery in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S., zone 7a. The only plants that we mail order are snowdrops and miniature hostas and only within the US.
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