The Delaware Center for Horticulture hosted a garden tour today that concentrated on 2 areas--inside the City of Wilmington, and north of the City in the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania area. Today we will talk about the Pennsylvania gardens.
The first property, with the classical vista, is owned by a former garden center owner who has lived for over 30 years in his home in Chadds Ford. On about 7 acres with well-tended paths, it crosses a stream and has numerous viewing areas among the mature canopy of trees. The second Chadds Ford garden has been tended by the same owners for 25 years and I must say that for a wooded property, the edges of the woodland paths are all groomed and mulched for the neatest looking woods I have seen outside of a public garden.
Living in a farm house built in 1796, the last owner's property has an impressive gated entrance from Kennett Pike, and boasts the only Paulownia forest garden I have ever seen. It has everything from picturesque barn ruins to a formal American boxwood garden.
And being an old house person, I could not resist showing you the 1796 Chadds Ford farmhouse which is the center of this flowery, ferny, creatively tended property.
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