Be captivated by the variety of garden features that await you on Sheila and Randy Garry's half acre property. Walk the paths through the perennial beds, just as they do each morning, to delight in new emerging or blooming plants and to plan the improvements they constantly make. As you stroll the paths, listen to the waterfall in the small fish pond and enter the "quiet area" where the ferns beckon and a bench awaits. Throughout the garden you see evidence of the owners’ love of scented plants like the shrub clethra and the upright cimicifuga. The fragrant gray green leaves of the Vitex will release their scent as you look closely at the purple flowers blooming. You can follow the short stone path that leads to a spectacular 30' tall climbing hydrangea. Before you leave don't forget the sedum bed and the yellow speckled acuba. As you do so think about the motto of the garden owners, “Bloom where you are planted.”
Directions to 360 Oak Leaf Road, Eastham.
From Rt 6. Pass the traffic light at the Brackett Rd intersection in N Eastham, heading North. Continue to the next traffic light. Turn right on Nauset Rd. Continue straight, after stop sign go 400 ft and turn left on Oak Leaf. #360 is on the right.
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This flourishing garden is located on a half acre site that includes structures and plantings original to the property, built in 1950. Enjoy an old greenhouse and mature vines, poppies, and rose bushes that create a lush sensation throughout. The owners have planted over 30 varieties of hydrangea including mop head, lace cap, oak leaf, climbing and paniculata in groupings and as accents throughout the property. You will also see specimen stewartia, native bamboo, iris and hosta. An asparagus bed, a tomato garden, and an herb garden provide a bountiful harvest for the table. Flowers are well represented by a zinnia garden, a hidden garden, a hosta garden and several border gardens.
Directions to 18 Hart Road, Truro.
Traveling on Route 6 east you enter Truro soon after you pass Moby Dick's Restaurant on the left. Continue 4.5 miles and turn left on Great Hollow Rd. just after the green sign for Corn Hill Beach. Travel .2 mile passing Marsh Hawk Trace on your left. About 200 feet later you will see one large and one small yellow sign with yellow reflectors. Bear right of those signs and in about 100 feet on your right, you will come to Hart Road. Turn right on Hart Road and follow through two left turns to #18, on the left.
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