Innisfree Garden
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Innisfree Garden is a nonprofit public garden in the Chinese style, located at 362 Tyrrel Road, Millbrook, New York
. The garden is open Tuesday through Sunday, from May 7 to October 20; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was established 1930-1960 as the private garden of Walter and Marion Beck, inspired by the garden of eighth-century Chinese poet and painter Wang Wei
(王維) (698-761). It opened to the public in 1960 under the direction of landscape architect Lester Collins, the Chair of Harvard University
's Landscape Architecture program.
Innisfree is an American garden with streams, waterfalls, terraces, retaining walls, rocks, and plants based on principles of Chinese landscape design. Most of the plants are native, and rocks come from the local forest. Tyrrel Lake (40 acres) is a large, deep glacial lake from which water is pumped into a hillside reservoir, and thence to the garden's water features.
Millbrook, New York
Millbrook is a village in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is often said to be a "low-key version of the Hamptons" and one of the wealthiest towns in New York State. Millbrook's estimated town population was 1,551 in 2008. Millbrook is located in the Hudson Valley, an hour and thirty...
. The garden is open Tuesday through Sunday, from May 7 to October 20; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was established 1930-1960 as the private garden of Walter and Marion Beck, inspired by the garden of eighth-century Chinese poet and painter Wang Wei
Wang Wei
Wang Wei , was a Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman. He was one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his time. Many of his poems are preserved, and twenty-nine were included in the highly influential 18th century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.-Name...
(王維) (698-761). It opened to the public in 1960 under the direction of landscape architect Lester Collins, the Chair of Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's Landscape Architecture program.
Innisfree is an American garden with streams, waterfalls, terraces, retaining walls, rocks, and plants based on principles of Chinese landscape design. Most of the plants are native, and rocks come from the local forest. Tyrrel Lake (40 acres) is a large, deep glacial lake from which water is pumped into a hillside reservoir, and thence to the garden's water features.