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outing to New Castle is a gardener’s delight, with its historic
Green, host of private and public gardens, and Battery Park along
the Delaware River. Among these public gardens are the grounds of
New Castle Historical Society’s historic sites.
Explore the charming Amstel House garden, with elements of a Colonial
Revival garden designed in the 1930s by noted Mid-Atlantic landscape
architect, Charles Gillette. Walk into this enclosed, Georgian town
garden. Examine its boxwood garden planned with a unique butterfly
pattern in brick. Discover the focal point of this boxwood garden,
a Renaissance-era pilaster, originally from London Bridge, topped
with a 1789 English sundial. Investigate its delightful garden house,
tucked into a back corner.
In the Dutch House garden, sit under an arbor of greenery, among
delightful herbs and old-fashioned plantings. The 1950s Colonial
Revival garden, conceived by Homsey Architects of Wilmington, reflects
prevailing concepts of an early Anglo-Dutch garden. A modern perennial
garden, through the gate behind the historic grounds, provides a
breathtaking array of plant material suited to the town’s
riverside location.
Peek in at the Victorian, brick-walled garden at the rear of the
Old Library Museum. Relax on a cast iron bench, set among roses
and lilacs, in an oasis of calm.
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