Brunel Park

Multifaceted garden with terrain changes, several garden rooms spanning various sun and shade areas, and a slew of unusual specimen fruit trees, vines, and shrubs that combine to create a magical garden environment on 1.3 compact acres planted between and among a collection of century-old figurative and narrative concrete statuary. The Alsatian-style house is surrounded by pea gravel and bluestone pathways through iris, geranium, lilies, and European hornbeam. Prized tree peonies lead the way to a formal boxwood herb garden with phlox and foxglove which then transitions to a rhododendron slope underplanted with hellebores and other groundcovers. Up the white pine root stairs is a level sunny garden with several pollinator beds, a hardy kiwi pergola and the newest additions-two Czech crevice gardens and a native plants bed devoted to attracting pollinators. The native plant pollinator garden at the front of the visitor center is in full glory in late summer and early fall.