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2015 Garden Dialogues: Ossining, M. Bakwin Estate, June 20
New York
Saturday June 20, 1:30 to 3:30pm | Ossining
M. Bakwin Estate by Michael V. Ruggiero, RLA of MVR Landscape Garden
Nestled among an impressive array of large rock outcrops, this Tudor-style home and garden offer panoramic views of its central ten-acre groomed landscape. From the house and terraces, visitors enjoy a vista of towering trees, spacious lawn areas, dramatic rock outcroppings, lush gardens brimming with seasonal color, a three-acre pond, orchards, and meadows. An 'integrated' deer fence protects such gardens as the vegetable garden, a Japanese style garden, and a perennial border. Forty acres of mature, deciduous forest completely enclose the property. A dense, planted understory and years of moss overgrowth carpet the forest floor and exposed rock, revealing the interplay between the designed and natural and celebrating the rugged vernacular New York landscape. Photo by Michael Victor
Ruggiero says these gardens are much different than estate gardens of the same era and scale. Instead of formalized...