TAKE-AWAYS FROM A Colonial Revival Garden

True Colonial-era gardens were practical, rarely ornamental, and relied on edible and medicinal plants. Victorian gardens required regular manicuring and betrayed a taste for artifice. But gardens planted in the first decades of the 20th century continue to guide garden design today. A mix of American nostalgia and lessons learned from the great English landscape designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement, these gardens featured lush plantings that spilled over the formality of geometric layouts.

THESE MAGNIFICENT GARDENS survive and thrive at the historic Bellamy–Ferriday House in Bethlehem, Connecticut. The original house was built