Upcoming Events :: North Hill Garden

The Garden at North Hill Open Days

Joe Eck & Wayne Winterrowd regret that North Hill will be closed to visits in 2007 due to serious renovations that must be made in the garden.

About North Hill

Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, nationally recognized garden designers and horticulturists, started the garden at North Hill 1977. It now comprises about seven acres under intense cultivation, surrounded by a larger tract of mature hardwoods of beech and maple. Though it has evolved in size and dimension throughout its life, most parts have now reached a youthful maturity.

The mission of the garden is to grow as many species as might be hardy in a climate that experiences winter lows of -20 degrees Fahrenheit. Significant individual collections within the garden include plantings of heathers and dwarf conifers, antique and species roses, bamboos, unusual perennials and annuals, an extensive rock and bog garden, a large collection of hybrid deciduous magnolias and many tender conservatory plants used as components of the garden in summer.

Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd are the authors of Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and Table at North Hill, A Year at North Hill, Elements of Garden Design and Annuals for the Connoisseur. The garden at North Hill has been featured in Horticulture, in The New York Times, in The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, in Rosemary Verey's The American Man's Garden, in Penelope Hobhouse's Flower Garden, in Ann Lovejoy's The American Mixed Border, and in Christopher Lloyd's Other People's Gardens.