Want a chance to see local landscape designer and Westover Landscape Design owner Robert Welsch's own home garden in Tarrytown? Please come take a look and get some ideas for your own garden. The $5 entry fee is shared by the Garden Conservancy and Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
Here's the description from Open Days Program:
Who says the suburbs are all about lawns? Located on a steep slope in the village of Tarrytown, New York, this garden and the gravel dining and lounging terrace do not feature a lawn. Instead, the garden designer and owner, Robert Welsch of Westover Landscape Design, has created a series of stone paths winding up and down the slope, and planted with waves of color and texture. At each curve, a new collection of plants beckons: rare rhododendron and aralias, cryptomeria, huge mature oakleaf hydrangea, and a brand new hillside garden with hundreds of plants. Several “landing pads” are built into the paths and planted to provide a calm focal point for visitors to sit and relax. The garden also includes fanciful oversized window boxes and container plantings, and a serene bubbling fountain spilling over a Balinese jar. Well planned, the garden has an organic, natural, and exuberant feel. This is an inspirational garden for those who have a small yard and want to fill it with year-round beauty.
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Directions: From Connecticut or White Plains, take I-287 to I-87 (stay to right, highway changes names to I-87) to last exit before bridge, Exit 9/Tarrytown. Turn left at end of exit, then right onto Route 9/Broadway. Go 1 mile (four or five lights, to 7-Eleven on left and Wachovia Bank on right), turn right onto Neperan Road. Drive up hill to #149, on left, yellow house with green wood fence and shutters.
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From New York City, take West Side Highway North to Saw Mill River Parkway North to Tarrytown exit and turn right at end of ramp onto Route 119 heading west toward Hudson River. Go to end and turn right onto Route 9/Broadway. Proceed as directed above.
From Nyack or Rockland County, take I-287 across Tappan Zee Bridge to first exit after toll booths, Exit 9. Turn right at light at end of exit ramp onto Route 9/Broadway. Proceed as directed above.
