Old-Fashioned Garden

Old-Fashioned Garden. . This garden, planted in 1905, features a large assortment of blooming flowers, which can be found here from early spring into the fall months. The floral picture continually changes. The pattern for this garden is a quincunx, which is a geometric pattern consisting of four points arranged at the four corners of a square or rectangle, with a fifth at its center. In this garden those geometric points are circles. A niche in the stone wall at the north end of the pergola displayed statuary. The pergola was covered with vines. , Mark Clark Thompson’s travels in Europe may have served as inspiration for this garden, which covers nearly two thirds of an acre. , This garden, planted in 1905, is actually the second Old-Fashioned Garden on the estate. Due to the property’s expansion in 1903, and the subsequent restructuring of multiple gardens, land from the original garden was reused. Construction of the current Old-Fashioned Garden was completed in 1906. , “In this garden are all kinds of old-fashioned flowers with a constant succession of bloom, making this at all times one of the beauty spots of the estate.” – Excerpt from The Union Advertiser, 1909. , The 150 foot-long pergola along with the distinctive quincunx flower bed pattern are the most distinguishing elements of this garden.