Stonecrop Gardens
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 Stonecrop Gardens | |
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| Formation | 1992 |
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| Founder | Frank Cabot |
| Type | Nonprofit public garden |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 41°26′33″N 73°52′09″W / 41.44250°N 73.86917°W |
| Membership | The Garden Conservancy |
Key people | Caroline Burgess |
| Website | www |
Stonecrop Gardens is a public garden in Cold Spring, New York, U.S. Formerly the home of Anne and Frank Cabot, the founder of The Garden Conservancy, the ground became a public garden in 1992, directed by Caroline Burgess. A variety of gardens include woodland and water gardens, a bamboo grove, stone beds with alpine flowers, systematic flower beds and an enclosed English flower garden.[1]
Stonecrop Gardens began as the private property of garden designers Anne and Frank Cabot, who built a manor house as their private residence, in Cold Spring, New York, in 1958.[2] Frank Cabot founded The Garden Conservancy in 1989[3] and after his death the property was passed to a nonprofit corporation, which uses the house as the headquarters for running the gardens.[2][1]
Commissioned by the Cabots, the English horticulturalist Caroline Burgess helped, from the mid-1980s, to transform the gardens to a public garden which was opened in 1992. She has remained the director and kept diversifying the display gardens.[3][1] The gardens are shown on tours among other public gardens of the area.[4]
