Photo essay by JC Martin
WESTPORT–Over the weekend, Westporters had the opportunity to tour Westport’s TideBrook Garden. TideBrook is, according to The Garden Conservancy’s website, a unique space well outside the traditional Garden Conservancy properties’ typical grandeur, opulence, and venerable histories.
The modest-sized (0.2 acre) property has been managed by Dr. Kenneth Lippman, an internist, rheumatologist and primary care doctor affiliated with Norwalk Hospital.
The garden’s principal artworks are sculpted ornamental botanicals: flowers into shrubs, shrubs into trees, trees into umbrella canopy.
Often resulting in striking shapes, profiles and color mixes, often most notably with a Bonsai effect. Some shrubs have been literally interwoven into multilayered color and texture of leaf and bloom.
The entire back terraced garden sits on a major brook, “Stony Brook,” down from Monroe, Easton, Weston and Old Hill Westport, which mixes fresh water twice daily with tidal backflow from the close- by saltwater Saugatuck River. Mallard ducks, swans, egrets and Canada geese frequently visit.
The original brookside and marsh property was developed by Saugatuck Sea Captain John Carver c.1832 and is in the Westport Historical Society Registry. The Captain’s cottage was restored and upgraded by renowned Westport Architect Peter Cadoux in 1985-86.
The garden’s next Open Day is September 19. Learn more here.
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