From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Today's guest return from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden

making of his own.

His canvas was a northwestern Connecticut

hillside and not the Cotswolds, and the home he just purchased wasn't a grand

matter house but a simple 18th century farmhouse. Nevertheless George Scholkov

brought the feel of an English garden to life at the place that became Hollister

House, which today is a much visited destination garden, and

also the site of a rich offering of educational programs throughout the season, including

the popular Garden Study Weekend early each September.

More in a moment, but first, these messages.

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In the gardens at Hollister House in Washington, Connecticut, George Shulkoff has contrasted

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