点评:Fascinating place for casual or avid gardeners. The premise is very interesting: apparently there had been a garden here 300 years ago, which had fallen into disrepair, was totally overgrown – basically no signs of a garden remained. Two guys bought the 200 acre garden ruins in 1996 and have been doing major, major rebuilding. Grading the dirt, bringing in dirt, finding water sources, sculpting topiary, creating flower gardens, and building a secret valley garden below the formal garden. Once you’ve walked through the formal section, there’s a walled garden and then multiple paths lead down into a secret valley garden with three small waterfalls, flowering trees and shrubs and various flowers. I don’t know how many acres that area was - I think not huge - but because it was so vertical it felt like there was always something new around each corner. They built a walled garden with curved walls, a reflecting, pool, and statuary. Colorful border gardens of flowers on either side. The top area intrigued me because they were triangular pointed evergreen shrubs, but they were different sizes and were not placed in a symmetrical row which I liked. Those very formal Versailles style gardens where everything has a precise place and there’s the same layout exactly opposite turn me off.
Another thing I liked about this garden is that it draws your eye up, either to the meadows and sky above the top area or to the mountains above the valley garden – different vistas. Overall, a very sophisticated garden and I would agree that it’s “hidden” in the sense that the entire garden is off the beaten path but also that within the garden, there are hidden spaces. As a side note, their tea room looked very nice, new and classy furnishings.
翻译:对于休闲园艺爱好者或资深园艺爱好者来说,这里都是一个令人着迷的地方。它的故事非常有趣:据说300年前这里曾有一座花园,但后来年久失修,杂草丛生——基本上找不到任何花园的痕迹。1996年,两位男士买下了这片占地200英亩的花园遗址,并进行了大规模的重建工作。他们平整土地,运土入库,寻找水源,修剪树篱,打造花园,并在正式花园下方建造了一个隐秘的山谷花园。穿过正式花园区域后,你会看到一个围墙花园,然后沿着多条小径向下,便可到达这个隐秘的山谷花园,那里有三处小型瀑布、开花树木、灌木和各种花卉。我不知道这片区域究竟有多少英亩——我想应该不大——但由于地势起伏,感觉每个转角都会有新的惊喜。他们建造了一个围墙花园,花园的墙壁呈弧形,还有一个倒影池和雕塑。花园两侧是色彩缤纷的花坛。花园顶部的景观让我很感兴趣,因为那里种植着一些三角形的常绿灌木,它们大小不一,而且并非对称排列,这一点我很喜欢。那种凡尔赛式的、一切都井然有序、布局完全对称的正式花园,让我很反感。
这座花园的另一个优点是,它能引导你的视线向上延伸,无论是顶部区域的草地和天空,还是山谷花园上方的群山——不同的景色尽收眼底。总而言之,这是一座非常精致的花园,我同意它“隐秘”的说法,不仅因为整个花园远离喧嚣,还因为花园内部也隐藏着许多隐蔽的空间。顺便一提,他们的茶室看起来非常漂亮,陈设新颖而高雅。