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The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
Sir Ivan's castle in Water Mill. DANA SHAW
The garden on Wainscott Stone Road in Wainscott is one of the stops on the ARF Garden Tour. DANA SHAW
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The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
Ivan Wilzig DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
The gardens at the home on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. DANA SHAW
On Saturday, June 18, folks will have a chance to visit some of the most beautiful private gardens on the South Fork, as the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons offers the 30th anniversary version of the ARF Garden Tour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine.The Wainscott Stone Road property of Rosalind and Ken Landis features a design by the noted landscape architect Edmund Hollander, along with dashes of Ms. Landis’s British heritage. A rose and clematis arbor, pool house with gardens and a view of Georgica Pond dominate the surroundings. Closer observation notes a small, multi-level vegetable and herb garden constructed on the former site of a Bilco door. The Landis estate also boasts specimen trees and a line of tall rhododendron bushes that would make royalty jealous.
The gardens were renovated by Christopher LaGuardia to open up the views to the pond, but it wasn’t until the Landises enclosed the entire property to keep the deer out that the gardens really flourished. Pet owners and lovers, the Landises are new to the world of garden tours.
Mr. Hollander was also the designer behind the gardens of Bettysue and Jeffrey Hughes, down a treed lane on Ocean Road, Bridgehampton. The property was featured in Mr. Hollander’s book Gardens for the New Country Place," and it offers visitors a stepped garden with creeping thyme and the whisper of native grasses over stunning views of the water.
The garden of Susan Calhoun and Charlie Moss was designed by noted landscape designer Edwina von Gal. Their house was originally the Wainscott post office, which Susan and Charlie moved from Main Street in the spring of 1978 and which has been much modified and expanded over the years. They have created comfortable outdoor spaces and transitions from lawn and garden to meadow and view, with each component of the landscape given the freedom to grow as it wishes.
Renowned furniture designer and interior decorator Nancy Corzine was most excited about her garden when she was building her dream house in Bridgehampton. She filled the grounds with indigenous bushes, trees and grasses, picking each piece herself, always with an eye toward restraint. Her greatest pleasure is the wildlife that the garden attracts.
When Gillian Spreckels Fuller bought her home in Sagaponack, the first thing she did was replace the tennis court with a garden. The garden occupies her mind year-round and she looks at it as huge experiment. She aims for something English, but admits she is not quite sure how to accomplish it, as the borders have been extended four times.
The tour also includes an opportunity for ticketholders to visit the Madoo Conservancy for “Much About Madoo” and the annual garden market.
Friday night kicks off the event with a cocktail party from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Sagaponack oceanfront home of garden tour co-chair Barbara Slifka. Mark Fichandler is the other co-chair of the ARF Garden Tour.
Tickets for the tour are $85 each and can be purchased at arfhamptons.org, the ARF adoption center or thrift store, various garden centers, or by calling 631-537-0400, extension 219. Tickets for the cocktail party are $175.
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on Jun 11, 2016