Michael Fuchs’ Garden
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Want to see another good garden on Sunday?
Check out Michael Fuchs’ 12-acre property in Katonah. He’s the founder and longtime chair of HBO.
His garden will also be open on Sunday as part of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program, along with Phillis Warden’s 7-acre garden in Bedford.
They are just a few minutes apart by car. Here’s a link to an earlier blog post about Phillis’ garden and a link to a story I wrote for the paper this week on the two gardens.
Description of Michael’s garden is in the sidebar to the right of the screen, under photo of Phillis, down a few paragraphs.
Michael spends most of his time in Manhattan and Hawaii and has given free rein to his very good gardener, Mary Larkin.
She’s great with containers.
Love the banana trees, in front of the guest house.
More of the guest house.
And the sprawling main house.
Big perennial beds around an old gazebo.
Lots of lilies.
And irises.
Swell swimming pool.
And 100-year old clay tennis court, in top form.
Yummy-looking squash blossoms in the new and very big organic vegetable garden. Mary says guests can pretty much go pick their own salads for dinner. What a treat.
Michael’s garden will be open from 10 to 4 on Sunday. For more information, including directions to all five Westchester gardens open on Sunday, visit the Garden Conservancy’s Web site.
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on Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 4:29 pm by Bill Cary.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
