Caroline Ferriday’s beloved garden may spend most of the winter blanketed in snow but that’s part of why it is so lovely come spring. Her incredible collection of lilacs needs the cold of winter in order to bloom. 
Come May and June the most glorious display bursts forth. Can’t wait. Already made my hotel reservations to be there when the lilacs bloom. It’s such a treat.
The grounds of the Bellamy-Ferriday house hold 14 lilac varieties, each lovelier than the next.
Caroline collected old roses and the garden is full of them. You’ll also find glorious forsythia, mock orange, peonies and Carolina Allspice. Caroline and her mother planted some wonderful trees as well, including a purple beech and a weeping willow grown from a cutting taken from the tree at Napoleon’s grave.
photo courtesy of Jen Posner
A map of the garden is available at the house. Find out more about visiting the Bellamy-Ferriday House go to http://www.ctlandmarks.org/content/bellamy-ferriday-house-garden.
