PLT BRIDGE GARDENS — MAY 2014

BG 5.29.14 # 9733 9469

Viburnum Plicatum Forma Tomentosum ‘Summer Snowflake’.

BG 5.29.14 # 9826V3 9476

BG 5.29.14 # 9711 9472

Salix ‘Hakuro Nishiki’.

BG 5.29.14 # 9739 9470

Allium aAflatuense ‘Purple Sensation’. 

BG 5.29.14 # 9833 9480

Chamomile (Matricaria Chamomilla).

BG 5.29.14 # 9742A 9485

Bluestar (Amsonia Hubrichtii).

BG 5.29.14 # 9778 9468

May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum).

BG 5.29.14 # 9840V2 9477

Loosestrife (Lysimachia Ciliata ‘Atropurpurea’) & Allium ‘Purple Sensation’.

BG 5.29.14 # 9815C 9488

Viburnum ‘Summer Snowflake’.

BG 5.29.14 # 9844 9475

Water Lily Leaves.

BG 5.29.14 # 9705 9487

Woad (lsatis Tinctoria) in Bridge Gardens’ Vegetable Dye Bed. 

BG 5.29.14 # 9720 9477

Bridge Gardens’ Herb Garden with Boxwood, Barberry & Lavender Knot.

BG 5.29.14 # 9786 9479

Bride Gardens’ Island Bed with False Indigos, Spiraea ‘Ogon’, Grasses & ‘Homerun’ Rose.

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May 29, 2014

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BG 5.22.14 # 9542+ 9409

French Rose Blend Tulips (Colorblends, supplier) 

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9535 9400

Hosta Sum and Substance

Araiys Design 9148+2 9397

Bayberry

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9545 9405

Wisteria

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9455 9401

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9453 9402

Azaleas — Standard Semi-Evergreen 

BG 5.22.14 # 9523B&W 9410

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9646 9407

Iris x Germanica Immortelle

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9649 9406

Stylophorum Diphyllum / Celandine Poppy

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9479 9404

Allium Afflatuense — Purple Sensation

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9457 9403

Hosta Sum & Substance

AAQ - Bridge Gardens 5.22.14 # 9565 9408

Cercis Canadensis — Forest Pansy / Redbud

BG 5.22.14 # 9662+ 9408

Amsonia Hubrichtii / Bluestar

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May 22, 2014

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BG 5.16.14 # 8943 9277

Syringa Vulgaris

BG 5.16.14 # 8904 V2 9275

BG 5.16.14 # 8914 V2 9276

Hakenochloa Macra Aureola / Japanese Forest Grass.

BG 5.16.14 # 8969+ 9279

May 16, 2014

8517 V4 9239

Phyllostachys Nuda

8465 9240

8486+2 9256

Malus Coronaria — American Crab Apple

8500 9237

French Rose Blend Tulips

8537 9238

Hosta Sum & Substance

8509V3 9257

 May 13, 2014

Bridge Gardens 8117 9126

Bridge Gardens 8172 9127

Taraxacum Officinale / Dandelion Seed-Head (Pappus)

Bridge Gardens 8145 9125

Bridge Gardens 8106 9124

Erthronium Species / Trout Lily

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May 5, 2014

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BG 5.1.14 # 7587 8927

Narcissicus Itzim

BG 5.1.14 # 7504 8925

Hosta Sum & Substance

BG 5.1.14 # 7525 8924

Fagus Grandifolia, European Beech (last year’s leaves)

BG 5.1.14 # 7543 8928

Radishes & Arugula

BG 5.1.14 # 7563 8926

Privet Hedge — View toward Northwest

May 1, 2014

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Peconic Land Trust: BRIDGE GARDENS

 

Bridge Gardens was established in 1988 by Harry Neyens and Jim Kilpatric, who designed and installed the gardens over the ensuing 10 years. In 1997, Bridge Gardens Trust was created as a charitable corporation to maintain and preserve the gardens. In 2008, Neyens and Kilpatric donated Bridge Gardens to the Peconic Land Trust. Since operated under the auspices of the Trust, Bridge Gardens has grown as a horticultural oasis in the heart of Bridgehampton, and has been the setting for a broad array of cultural and educational programs, including its annual lecture series. Joining the Trust in 2008 as Garden Director, Rick Bogusch has become a locally known expert in garden design and planning, as well as for his culinary acumen, using plants found throughout the garden.

In 2012, Bridge Gardens adopted a mission to serve as a multi-purpose, multi-disciplinary outdoor classroom, demonstration garden and community resource – and tied the Gardens purpose more closely to the mission of the Peconic Land Trust. With this in mind, the Gardens’ vegetable bed, planted in 2010, doubled in size.  In the Outer Garden, two large demonstration beds were created alongside the rose garden and planted with cover crops to demonstrate techniques for improving soil fertility – in both an attractive and beneficial way. Additionally, the programs planned at Bridge Gardens during the Spring, Summer and Fall all provide an educational component tied to sustainable garden and living practices.

Bridge Gardens will be open weekends through the end of October. Summer hours, which include Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, will begin Memorial Day weekend.  Bridge Gardens covers over five acres and consists of an Inner Garden and an Outer Garden. Developed first, the Inner Garden features a large, meticulously-trimmed knot garden surrounded by beds of 180 different culinary, medicinal, ornamental, and textile and dyeing herbs. Overlooking these plantings, the garden house is the manager’s residence/education center.  In the Outer Garden, the favorite attraction is a collection of antique and modern roses. Bridge Gardens also contains animal topiaries, perennial beds and borders, a water garden, woodland paths, a hidden bamboo room, double hedgerows of privet with viewing ports, and specimen shrubs and trees.

www.peconiclandtrust.org

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Site map courtesy of the Peconic Land Trust. 

Photographs © Jeff Heatley.

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