Before heading south to see family in Maryland, we stopped at the Marian Coffin Gardens at Gibraltar, in Wilmington, DE.
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| Gateway for Gibraltar/Hugh Rodney Sharp Mansion (c 1844, renovated 1915); Sharp was married to Isabella Mathieu du Pont |
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| The mansion with the garages and greenhouse are in disrepair |
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| The gardens (1916-1923, by pioneering female landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin, in Italianate Beaux Arts style) is now maintained by Preservation Delaware |
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| Overgrown terraces hide the Gibraltar mansion on the hilltop |
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| Iris domestica/Blackberry Lily (KSS) |
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| The swimming pool was made into a lily pond |
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| Statuary is found throughout the gardens (KSS) |
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| Curving staircase to the upper terraces |
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| Another Danaïd fountain, of the women condemned to spend eternity pouring water into a tub that leaked? |
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| Unusual color for Gladiolus sp |
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| Allée of Taxodium distichum/Bald Cypress |
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| "Summerhouse" at the end of the allée |
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| Lilium asiatica/White Trumpet Lilies |
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| More trumpet lilies (KSS) |
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| Gladiolus dalenii/Dragon's Head Lily |
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