Hillwood, the Marjorie Merriweather Post Estate
Here is another fabulous garden, also located in Georgetown, close to Dumbarton Oaks. Ms. Post apparently had enough money to feed a third world nation and the house is filled with Russian antiques and French porcelain. The gardens were immaculate and the best maintained of any gardens that I saw on my trip to Washington D.C. The majority of the plantings were azaleas which were not blooming of course. It has to be a most spectacular sight in the spring.
This is the driveway (yes, the driveway!)
Nice backyard
A pet cemetery
The French Parterre Garden - this was on the side of the house and Ms. Post had a view of it from her upstairs bedroom window.
The Rose Garden
A personal golf course!
This was one of the prettiest Japanese gardens I've ever seen. In fact, I've never really desired such a garden until I saw this one. It was very impressive, on a steep hillside, and tons of water. I kept wondering what size pump it would take to handle all that water.
Of course I loved the statuary -
This is the driveway (yes, the driveway!)
Nice backyard
A pet cemetery
The French Parterre Garden - this was on the side of the house and Ms. Post had a view of it from her upstairs bedroom window.
The Rose Garden
A personal golf course!
This was one of the prettiest Japanese gardens I've ever seen. In fact, I've never really desired such a garden until I saw this one. It was very impressive, on a steep hillside, and tons of water. I kept wondering what size pump it would take to handle all that water.
Of course I loved the statuary -
Comments
That Japanese garden looks very impressive. I have to go take some pictures of a secret Japanese garden in downtown San Francisco I heard about recently.
I have to agree with you on the Japanese garden. Now that's one worth cultivating!
At the San Francisco Flower and Garden show this year, an exhibitor built a small landscape of poisonous plants, subtly adorned here and there with distressed tombstones.