PLT BRIDGE GARDENS — JUNE 2014
Eastern prickly pear cactus (Opuntia himifusa)
fading yucca flowers (Yucca filamentosa)
Rosa ‘About Face’ (center), R. ‘Iceberg’ (right), R. ‘Disco Dancer’ (left)
Rosa ‘Disco Dancer’
Rosa ‘Berolina’
Rosa ‘Geoff Hamilton’
rose garden
White pine (Pinus strobus)
knot garden featuring ‘Jean Davis’ lavender
June 30, 2014
Japanese iris (Iris ensata)
Eastern prickly pear cactus
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
Rosa ‘Morning Magic’
Ornamental onion flower (Allium sp.)
Pond lily (Nymphaea odorata ‘Alba’)
waterlily leaves
Rosa ‘Don Juan’ (foreground), R. ‘Brite Eyes’ (background), Clematis ‘Betty Corning’
rose garden
June 24, 2014
Rosa ‘Carefree Celebration’
Yarrow (Achillea ‘Appleblossom’)
Rosa ‘Neptune’
Rosa ‘Livin’ Easy’
Rosa ‘Fourth of July’
Rosa ‘Morning Magic’
Rosa ‘Don Juan’
Rosa ‘Homerun’
Ornamental onion flower (allium sp.)
Knotweed (Persicaria polymorpha)
emerging yucca flower spikes (Yucca filamentosa)
June 19, 2014
Rosa ‘Carefree Celebration’ and knotweed (Persicaria polymorpha)
Island bed
Poppy (Papaver somniferum) in herb garden
Yarrow (Achillea ‘Coronation Gold’) in herb garden’s textile and dye bed
Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) in herb garden’s medicinal bed
Rosa ‘Don Juan’
climbing roses (east pergola)
climbing roses (east pergola)
Rosa ‘Brite Eyes’
Rosa ‘Betty Boop’
June 16, 2014
Twister by James De Martis
Twister by James DeMartis, Revisited
Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana), a “horrible” weed.
Spent Oak Flowers on leaves of Hosta ‘Sum & Substance’.
Spent flowers and emerging Azalea leaves.
Persicaria Virginiana “Painter’s Palette’.
Japanese Forest Grass (Hakenochloa Macro ‘Aureola’), Allium Albopilosum & Lilies.
Calycanthus ‘Venus’
Purple Smoketree (Cotinus Coggygria ‘Atropurpurea’).
Viburnum Flowers.
June 11, 2014
Clematis Montana ‘Alba’.
Rosa Rugosa.
Calycantus ‘Venus’.
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia Humifusa).
Iris X Germanica ‘Immortelle’.
Chocolate Mint & Alkanet Flowers (Anchusa Tinctoria).
Lavender & Purple-leaf Barbery.
June 6, 2014
Water Lilies.
Rosa Rugosa ‘Frau Dagmar Hastrup’.
Clematis ‘Mrs. Cholomondely’.
Calycanthus ‘Hartlage Wine’.
Profusion Chives (Allium Schoenoprasum). Seedless.
Lamb’s Ears (Stachys Lanata ‘Helene von Stein’).
Wisteria Trunks on Arbor Pillars.
Boston Ivy Leaves (Parthenocissus Tricuspidata).
Anthriscus Sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’.
False Solomon’s Seal (Smilacina Racemosa).
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June 4, 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
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Site map courtesy of the Peconic Land Trust.
Photographs © Jeff Heatley.
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