Gardens
Faces, places, treasures, and trends that caught our attention.
Foxtrot Farm & Flowers
It’s not easy to reach Kate Farrar during the growing season. Most days she’s out of the house by 6 am, tending to the numerous beds at Foxtrot Farm & Flowers in Stanfordville.
Eileen Naughton’s Garden
Tall and willowy with hair the color of autumn leaves, Eileen Naughton looks like she belongs in a garden, which is fitting because it’s where she spends much of her time.
Le Jardin Flower Farm
Romane began by selling them under the name Le Jardin Flower Farm at the Saturday market in Millerton (and surprised herself by how well she did), then deepened her knowledge with the help of the internet.
Stonewood Farm’s Kristen Essig
Sun streams in the large multi-paned windows of Stonewood Farm’s cookhouse. For Kristen Essig, Stonewood Farm’s new culinary director, it’s an oasis of calm, in stark contrast to the usual restaurant kitchen with a phalanx of chefs, and sous-chefs, the clatter of pots and pans, and waitstaff picking up their orders.
Dan Sternberg: Going Wild
If the 18 acres around Dan Sternberg and Debbie Cooper’s Millerton house doesn’t look like a garden, they have achieved their goal. It all started with a simple directive from Dan.
Liselotte Vince: Gardening with a Mission
For Liselotte Vince, it was never a question of whether she would be growing when her family bought a 140-acre Verbank property in 2010.
Michael Poulin: Making Millbrook Home
When it comes to setting a stage, Squirrel Hall knows how to entertain.
Michael Poulin didn’t have to think twice. He was visiting a friend’s weekend house in Millbrook in the late 1990s, when he decided what he wanted for his 40th birthday.
Equinox Farm
A visitor to Equinox Farm knows they’re in horse country long before the winding drive deposits them at the barn door. Fields with inviting cross-country jumps give way to large paddocks with horses contentedly grazing, and rows of ornamental maples screening the complex of buildings nestled at the base of a small hill.
Millbrook Tribute Garden
One of the many pleasures of living in Millbrook is walking through the beautiful Millbrook Tribute Garden.
Helen Cook’s Passion for Flowers
Hydrangeas. Tulips. Daffodils. Peonies. Alliums. These are some of Helen Cook’s favorite flowers
Charlotte’s in Millbrook
A gent at Charlotte’s Restaurant outside of Millbrook who wishes to wash his hands before dinner will find just off the left of the tin horse trough converted to a sink, the 1960s menu from The Silver Horn, offering steaks for three dollars and a double cut lamb chop for 50 cents more.
White Flower Farm Blossoms Under Son’s Leadership
Life has come full circle for Eliot Wadsworth. As a child he lived on the property of White Flower Farm, a family-owned nursery in Morris.
Orangerie Garden + Home: A Winter Escape for Gardeners
Orangerie Garden + Home in Millbrook offers unique plants, elegant containers, and gardening classes year-round.
Growing the Land
One day Ken Holzberg and Tom Kopfensteiner decided to look for a country house. Holzberg began a six-month cross-country trip and eventually wound up in Dutchess County.
Comfortable Grandeur
While Covid has wreaked havoc for so many, for interior designer Darren Henault it prompted a major decision—to move out of New York City and into his glorious Millbrook home with his husband Michael Bassett and their 14-year-old twin daughters Bunny and Lulu.
Community Project
Growing up in Stanfordville is nothing short of the childhood dream, where days are spent adventuring through fields and forests, riding ponies, and playing at SPARC Park. Locals still refer to the park as the best kept secret in the area. Yet, 30 years later, this best kept secret is in need of some major updates.
The Magic of Metal
It takes some effort to find Battle Hill Forge’s workspace but once there, it is another world. Tucked away underneath a building in Millerton it is chock-a-block with metal, machinery, and some amazing finished pieces. Israel “Izzy” Fitch started his business in 2004 and has been in demand ever since and is known for his innovative quality metalwork and design.
Wethersfield: A Landscape with Depth
Paradise sits on the crest of Pugsley Hill Road in Amenia. Walls of deftly sheared yew and arborvitae rise to the skies, pillows of clipped topiary flow one into the next, tunnels of beech arch overhead while fuchsia baskets shower their blossoms beside a water rill. It’s seriously divine. But to experience Wethersfield as Chauncey Devereaux Stillman—the landscape’s original owner—would prefer, you go through hell first.
