On to the Winterthur Garden:
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The Reflecting Pool was once the du Pont family swimming pool, with changing rooms (KSS) |
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The Reflecting Pool (by landscape designer Marian Coffin) with a view toward the mansion |
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Pool outbuilding and a back wall with three brass grates covering hi-fi speakers that allowed enjoyment of music |
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Glad Garden sundial |
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The Glade Garden started as a rock garden (1920s, by Marian Coffin) with waterfalls |
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Several small pools contain Cyprinus sp/Koi (KSS) |
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A greenhouse complex (1903-1904) with some plants and then some sitting areas |
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Papaver somniferum/Zahir Poppy (KSS) |
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Still some rhododendron blooms |
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Very tall trees in a garden that is mostly wooded |
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A "burly" maple tree |
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March Bank along the stream of Clenny Run is known for millions of bulb plants and early spring flowers |
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Nature is taking over this bench |
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Icewell Terrace is at the location of a former ice house |
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Hydrangea arborescens/Smooth Hydrangea |
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Enchanted Woods (1990s by W Gary Smith) was designed to look as if it were created by fairies |
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Water's Edge frog fountain |
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Begonia boliviensis |
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Kids in a giant bird nest of woven branches |
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Kent at the thatched-roof Faerie Cottage |
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Inside the Faerie Cottage |
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My dad put me in the well ... |
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Kent pumps water into the trough |
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Water spills from the trough |
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Turtle sculptures |
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Tulip Tree House is made from a hollowed tree trunk |
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Chimes ring when you open and close this gate |
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Kent, the sign clearly states, "Never ever step inside a fairy ring!" ... |
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... and look what happened! |
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The Green Man emerges from the earth |
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Near Oak Hill, Begonia grandis/Hardy Begonias have spread through the woods |
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Hardy begonias are known for the reddish undersides of the leaves |
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Lilium hansonii/Japanese Turk's-cap Lily |
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Lilium martagon/Martagon Lily |
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Quarry Garden (1962) with Primula beesiana/ Candelabra Primroses in pink and lavender |
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Quarry Garden Terrace |
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The Platanus occidentalis/American Sycamore of Sycamore Hill |
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Sundial Garden (1955, by Marian Coffin) in the former family tennis court has an armillary sphere sundial |
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Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'/ Biokovo Cranesbill |
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Chaenomeles sp/Flowering Quince fruit |
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The needles of a blue atlas cedar |
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Part of the Pinetum |