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Beatrice
Procter Frelinghuysen
Garden
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screen view and planting details. |
This garden is a shade perennial border backed by shade
tolerant flowering shrubs such as azalea, summersweet, oakleaf hydrangea
and Kerria. While offering refreshing coolness in midsummer and a play
of dappled sunlight on the plants, it demonstrates how shade need not be
a deterrent to growing many wonderful perennials. |
| The garden, completed in 1999, is a memorial to Bea
Frelinghuysen, a former trustee and long-time friend of the
Berkshire Botanical Garden. It was created through the joint
talents of landscape architect Walter Cudnohufsky, the design
team of Edith Edelman and Doug Ruhren and the
horticultural staff of the Garden. |
| The picture shown above was
taken in June of 2000 , showing remarkable progress in a short
time. To the right is a view in late summer of 2002 taken by
Betsy Palmer Thompson. Click on it
for a larger view. |
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| The Frelinghuysen is designed as a
"sister" garden to the de Gersdorff Garden, with the idea
that these two crescent-shaped borders jointly form a large "garden
room". |
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