“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree.”
W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1888)
A garden with a Scottish poet’s reference for its name, a woodland plant palate, a lake and a Asian influence creating a garden of individual style. This isn’t a flower garden, yet there are blooms. This isn’t a Chinese garden, there are no statues of Buddha. This is a woodland of trees, moss and ferns. Set among all of these ideas are stones creating pockets of space for a visitor to linger and inhale the scent of trees, and contemplate the intimate space within the 200 acres of grounds. A landscape designed by one inspired landscape architect , “Lester Collins, FASLA (1914 – 1993), with important contributions by his clients, artist and teacher Walter Beck