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The Vista Garden |
The Vista Garden is a four-season garden adorned by the blossoms of spring bulbs, fothergilla, crabapple, dogwood, and new light-green foliage in spring; the flowers of summersweet and oakleaf hydrangea in summer; brilliant foliage colors in the fall; and finally evergreens and brightly colored bark in the winter.
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Above: part of the Vista Garden conifer collection viewed from the de Gersdorff Garden in early June.
The Vista garden was started in 1992 when Shirley Redington of the Northeast Heather Society, and a good friend of the Berkshire Botanical Garden, planted a heather border here. In the fall of 1995, the garden was expanded to its current layout, and during the springs of 1996 and 1997 it was planted.
The garden was made possible thanks to memorial gifts by the family and friends of Rowland and Shirley Redington, and the supporters of the recent Capital Campaign of the Berkshire Botanical Garden.