点评:I took a walking tour of the gardens at Clermont, the Livingston mansion in Germantown, NY with the new head Horticulturalist of the gardens.
She went over how she maintains the gardens with a small staff of volunteers and the history of how the gardens got developed in the 1930’s by Alice Livingston. The gardens were very vibrant in color with many of them in full bloom. We walked through the Sun, Cutting, Children’s, Walled and Wilderness Gardens with a small history of each and the game plan that the State of New York had for them. I have to admit she had a lot of work to do on a daily basis.
The garden and the house tour are really interesting just to see the amount of work that needed to be done both on the house and gardens but you can see the care that goes into it. They really are beautiful gardens and nicely planned out.
It was a great tour and I highly recommend it.
翻译:我参加了克莱蒙特花园(位于纽约州日耳曼敦的利文斯顿宅邸)的徒步之旅,由新任首席园艺师带领。
她详细介绍了她如何带领一小队志愿者维护花园,以及花园的历史——20世纪30年代爱丽丝·利文斯顿是如何开发这些花园的。花园里色彩缤纷,许多花卉正值盛花期。我们参观了阳光花园、切花花园、儿童花园、围墙花园和荒野花园,她分别简要介绍了每个花园的历史以及纽约州为它们制定的规划。不得不说,她每天的工作量确实很大。
花园和宅邸之旅非常有趣,不仅能感受到维护房屋和花园所需的大量工作,还能体会到其中倾注的心血。这些花园确实非常美丽,规划得也很精妙。
这是一次很棒的旅行,我强烈推荐。