Stonecrop Gardens Reviews

Beautiful gardens with an amazing glass house overhanging a pond. The flower garden is an amazing riot of blooms and color in August. Well worth a visit!

This is a small but beautiful outdoor garden compatible with the natural environment. Small ponds and a variety of flora and fauna enhance the beauty of the environment .

This is a lovely garden to visit. The garden is divided into smaller sub-gardens that show different types of plants and planting methods. It s very educational.

A hidden gem near Cold Spring NY. Wish I knew about the place earlier! It's heaven for garden lovers.

Great walk through the grounds. Loved all the plants and flowers!

As a lover of cactus and succulents, this place is an oasis I could meander in for hours. It is educationally organized, taken care of well and the staff are friendly and helpful. The best part is it's so close to where I live.

What a special place. So grateful to stumble upon it today. So enjoyed our time here.

From a photographers standpoint it a beautiful garden, it was clearly laid out by someone that had artistic taste. They put up walls or tall bushes to keep each garden isolated, using hills and low points to create a surprise garden. The location has a magical feel, like Gandalf was going to pop out of the bushes and pressure me in having a quest of some kind. And you will have an adventure.

Why? Because the paths are not clearly marked, we almost missed a garden, and we could have gotten hurt in one area. Even now I'm not sure if we should have gone down the rocky path in the gravel garden. There was a stunning hobbit like gazebo in one pond. But the only way to go down, was to traverse a rocky slope, that unless you were nimble and well balanced, its the only way to get down it. If it were damp, it would be a lot more dangerous. If you have a person with a cane, a limp, a hurt leg, a child, etc, they will fall off of this and drown. There are no railings - and I'm still not sure if we were supposed to go down it or not. The building was opening at the bottom, so it must have been a path. If your listening Stone crop garden - PUT IN RAILS! and an alternate path to get down or up.

Because we did want to risk that climb again, we wanted to find a different way out. We ended up walking in circles, until we found a very steep grassy hill. This would have been a perfect spot for a stair case. We got to the top and headed toward a building that was under construction. The guy said we couldn't go through, he said go down the road and make a left. So we did, we ended up walking a very long distance, stupidly we crossed over the section of the road that was meant to stop deer. It was a 15ft span of metal pipes spaced 10" apart, that we got across a step at a time. There was no safe way for a human to cross it in an emergency. Looking at the GPS, I saw that we were headed back for the long road going into the place. Deciding this is the wrong direction, we went back over that grating, and finally found the road the guy was talking about - it was not marked.

So go, if you like gardens that have a fantasy theme, I recommend when the wisteria was out (it wasn't when we went in middle June). Its a higher elevation and it seems the peonies were all still strong, they were dead where I lived at near sea level. The irises were fading when we got there, So I would say this is probably a Spring/Autumn garden.

Beautiful garden to visit with your kids. Lots of trails to walk. Loved the sequoia trees.