Garden Conservancy Open Days Schedule July 16, 2006

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Garden Conservancy Open Days Schedule July 16, 2006

CONNI CROSS GARDEN DESIGNER
Cutchogue, New York (10 am – 2 pm)
This is a twenty-two-year-old garden on approximately five acres. It is three-quarters shade garden with light, sandy soil, designed by garden designer Conni Cross and her late husband, Jim Cress. This unusual solar house is surrounded by a tufa garden featuring dwarf and miniature conifers and alpines. Look for a waterfall, four ponds, an aviary and barnyard, children's playhouse, natural-style pool, rare plants, lush gardens, and many other unusual garden features.
DIRECTIONS:
At the request of its owner, information about visiting this garden is available only through our Open Days Directories and in limited supply at other gardens open on this date

MAURICE ISAAC AND ELLEN COSTER ISAAC
4835 Oregon Road, Mattituck, New York (10 am – 4 pm)
This early 1900s country farmhouse has been designed with two major borders incorporating extensive plantings of unusual combinations of bulbs, perennials, trees, shrubs, and annuals. A pond adds a beautiful and soothing touch. A path leads to a swimming pool and plantings, as well as an old restored barn adjacent to an arbor planted with wisteria, clematis, and several vines offering tranquility, shade, and a view of the extensive nearby vineyards.
DIRECTIONS:
From Long Island Expressway/I-495, take Exit 73/Route 58 and follow to Route 25. Go through Mattituck past Love Lane to Wickham Avenue. Turn left and go past railroad tracks and traffic light. Stay straight on Wickham; it will turn into Grand Avenue. Take Grand about 0.25 mile to East Mill Road. Turn right, keeping to left; this will turn into Oregon Road. Look for signs for parking.

DENNIS SCHRADER AND BILL SMITH
1200 East Mill Road, Mattituck, New York (10 am – 4 pm)
Set in the heart of the North Fork wineries, the two-plus-acre garden surrounds a restored 1850 farmhouse. The gardens are encircled by fourteen acres of fields. The decks, porches, and terraces are filled with container plantings. There are many perennial and mixed shrub borders, vegetable, herb, and dwarf fruit tree plantings, a formal knot garden, and a woodland shade area. The garden has rustic arbors, trellises, stone walls, a garden pavilion, many sitting areas, and a natural clay pond with a stream and bridge. There are other ponds for water lilies and papyrus. Many of the plantings contain tropicals, subtropicals, tender perennials, and annuals. Dennis is co-author of the book Hot Plants for Cool Climates: Gardening with Tropical Plants in Temperate Zones.
DIRECTIONS:
From Long Island Expressway/I-495, take Exit 73/Route 58 and follow to Route 25. Go through town of Mattituck past Love Lane to Wickham Avenue. Turn left and go past railroad tracks and traffic light. Stay straight on Wickham and it will turn into Grand Avenue. Take Grand about 0.25 mile to East Mill Road. Turn left and look for #1200. Please park along street.

KOEHLER'S KEEP, 575 Old Harbor Road
New Suffolk, New York (10 am – 4 pm)
When we purchased our house in 1985, the grounds (three and one half acres) had many estate quality trees but was basically devoid of any gardens or flowers. Over the next twelve years, six areas have been developed–a rock garden, a perennial bed, front house entrance, driveway island, bayside bed with grasses and roses, and a large bed with shrubs along the driveway. In addition, a river-rock stairway to the bay beach deck was planted and each season a profusion of pots graces the 150-foot deck at the beach. New Suffolk is a small, quaint hamlet with a two-room grammar school still in operation and is the site of the first U.S. submarine launching in the United States.
DIRECTIONS:
Take Long Island Expressway/I-495 east to end. Follow Route 58 east halfway around traffic circle; becomes Route 25 after crossing Route 105. Continue east on Route 25 to town of Cutchogue. Right turn onto New Suffolk Road at light. Go about 1 mile to Old Harbor Road (first left turn). Third driveway on left; brick apron. Park on street.

ALEXANDRA MUNROE AND ROBERT ROSENKRANZ GARDENS
19 West End Road, East Hampton, New York (10 am – 4 pm)
This young garden around a 1928 beach-front house combines formal and naturalistic landscaping. An exuberant meadow with many varieties of perennials, self-seeding annuals, and grasses is adjacent to a cottage garden and rose bed enclosed by a yew exedra. Nearby, a visitor strolls through a woodland walk, border with cryptomeria, cypress, and rhododendron underplanted with arisarum, ferns, and trillium, and concludes as the trail ends near the dunes with ornamental grasses. The house overlooks a parterre and croquet lawn where lead urns planted informally with various annuals serve as focal points. The kitchen terrace leads to a formal vegetable and cutting garden.
DIRECTIONS:
From Montauk Highway/Route 27, proceed to East Hampton. At traffic light at head of pond, turn right off Ocean Avenue. Take third right onto Lily Pond Lane and drive to end. At stop sign, turn left onto West End Road. House is fifth on left (ocean side), marked with cedar gate and privet hedge. Please park along West End Road or at Georgica Beach.

ALICE AND CHARLES LEVIEN S GARDEN
Antler Lane, Cutchogue, New York (10 am – 4 pm)
This garden is designed for living—children, grandchildren, guests, frequent outdoor parties. A two-acre mixed border and woodland garden has been planted to provide year-round privacy, continuous blooms in season, many-faceted views, and tranquility during winter. Multi-level decks with a variety of container plantings serve the main house, guest houses, elevated gazebo and pool, and children's playhouse. Occasional saltwater flooding from Peconic Bay Creek made the swimming pool, fishpond, lotus pond, and lawn areas a creative challenge for the designer, Alice Levien.
DIRECTIONS:
From Route 25 east, turn right at second traffic light in Cutchogue onto Eugene's Road. Turn right at Beebe Road. Bear right at fork in road; Antler Lane is first street on right. Look for a hemlock hedge. Please park along road.

THE JOHN P. HUMES JAPANESE STROLL GARDEN
Oyster Bay Road and Dogwood Lane, Mill Neck, New York
Regular Hours:
April 22 through October 22, weekends, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Private tours and tea ceremony demonstrations by appointment on Thursday and Friday. Public tours on alternating Saturdays. Call for dates and reservations. (516) 676-4486
A four-acre gem of landscape design, the garden provides a retreat for passive recreation and contemplation. The views, textures, and balance of elements in the garden follow Japanese aesthetic principles, encouraging a contemplative experience. The garden suggests a mountain setting beside a sea, where gravel paths represent streams forming pools and cascades, eventually fl owing into the ocean, represented by a pond.
Admission: $7 adults, children under 12 are free, $12 per person for guided tour. Garden Conservancy members are free. Guided tour with tea ceremony demonstration is $5.
DIRECTIONS:
From Long Island Expressway/I-495 West, take Exit 41N. Take Route 106 to Route 25A/Northern Boulevard/West. Turn right at second traffic light onto Wolver Hollow Road. Go to second stop sign and turn right onto Chicken Valley Road and proceed as directed above.