PLT BRIDGE GARDENS — JULY 2014
‘Charlene Strawn’ waterlily
Datura ‘Belle Blanche’
‘New Zealand Purple’ castor bean
‘Russian Mammoth’ sunflowers
Echinops ritro, Globe Thistle
cardoon
castor bean
Rosa ‘Brothers Grimm’
‘Immortality’ iris
Hosta flowers
Ivy Labyrinth
European beech hedge
July 29, 2014
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cardoon
‘Chocolate Cherry’ sunflower
Lilium ‘Ice Follies’
Sedum sp.
Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ and Hosta ‘Sum & Substance’
Lysimachia clethroides
Hosta fortune
Rosa rugose
Hemerocallis ‘Royal Occasion’
Molinia caerulea ‘Windspiel’
Yarrow
July 23, 2014
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Allium sphaerocephalon
Hydrangea ‘Annabelle’
possibly Rosa ‘Belinda’s dream’
Rosa ‘Morden Snowberry’
Rosa ‘Betty Prior’
Hosta ‘Sum & Substance’
Hydrangea arborescens ‘Invincibelle Spirit’
European Beech Hedge
July 14, 2014
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‘Imperial Star’ artichoke
Sorbaria sorbifolia, Ural false spiraea
unknown lily and Hakenochloa macra ‘Aureola’
Hemerocallis ‘Sunday Gloves’
Garden House through cattails
Lavandula angustifolia ‘Jean Davis’
‘Alcosa’ savoy cabbage
unknown lilies and ‘Ogon’ spiraea and Rosa ‘Homerun’ with grasses
The Island Bed and Woodland Garden
July 8, 2014
Crinum procera ‘Splendens’ and Plecostachys serpuyllum
unknown lilies and ‘Ogon’ spiraea
Acanthus spinosus
Viola tricolor, Johnny jump-up
Iris ensata, Japanese iris
Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’
‘Toscano’ kale
Hydrangea ‘Invincibelle Spirit’
July 2, 2014
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Peconic Land Trust: BRIDGE GARDENS
Bridge Gardens was established in 1988 by Harry Neyens and Jim Kilpatric, who designed and installed the gardens over the ensuing 10 years. In 1997, Bridge Gardens Trust was created as a charitable corporation to maintain and preserve the gardens. In 2008, Neyens and Kilpatric donated Bridge Gardens to the Peconic Land Trust. Since operated under the auspices of the Trust, Bridge Gardens has grown as a horticultural oasis in the heart of Bridgehampton, and has been the setting for a broad array of cultural and educational programs, including its annual lecture series. Joining the Trust in 2008 as Garden Director, Rick Bogusch has become a locally known expert in garden design and planning, as well as for his culinary acumen, using plants found throughout the garden.
In 2012, Bridge Gardens adopted a mission to serve as a multi-purpose, multi-disciplinary outdoor classroom, demonstration garden and community resource – and tied the Gardens purpose more closely to the mission of the Peconic Land Trust. With this in mind, the Gardens’ vegetable bed, planted in 2010, doubled in size. In the Outer Garden, two large demonstration beds were created alongside the rose garden and planted with cover crops to demonstrate techniques for improving soil fertility – in both an attractive and beneficial way. Additionally, the programs planned at Bridge Gardens during the Spring, Summer and Fall all provide an educational component tied to sustainable garden and living practices.
Bridge Gardens will be open weekends through the end of October. Summer hours, which include Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, will begin Memorial Day weekend. Bridge Gardens covers over five acres and consists of an Inner Garden and an Outer Garden. Developed first, the Inner Garden features a large, meticulously-trimmed knot garden surrounded by beds of 180 different culinary, medicinal, ornamental, and textile and dyeing herbs. Overlooking these plantings, the garden house is the manager’s residence/education center. In the Outer Garden, the favorite attraction is a collection of antique and modern roses. Bridge Gardens also contains animal topiaries, perennial beds and borders, a water garden, woodland paths, a hidden bamboo room, double hedgerows of privet with viewing ports, and specimen shrubs and trees.
www.peconiclandtrust.org
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Visit: AAQ/Portfolio/Art — Peconic Land Trust: Bridge Gardens, April, 2014
Visit: AAQ/Portfolio/Art — Peconic Land Trust: Bridge Gardens, May, 2014
Visit: AAQ/Portfolio/Art — Peconic Land Trust: Bridge Gardens, June, 2014
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Visit: AAQ/Portfolio/Art Portfolios
- PLT: Bridge Gardens — 5 — August
- PLT: Bridge Gardens — 6 — September
- PLT: Bridge Gardens — 7 — October
- PLT: Bridge Gardens — 8 — November
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Site map courtesy of the Peconic Land Trust.
Photographs © Jeff Heatley.
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