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Heirloom Garden Photo Gallery
The Antique Boat Museum began the process of creating a campus Master Plan by working closely with the Center for Community Design Research at SUNY College of ESF. In the fall of 2006 the Museum engaged graduate student Dan McCormick to work with the Museum’s staff and Building and Grounds Committee to create a Master Plan for the campus. In the spring of 2007 Dan presented his proposal to the full Board and in the fall of 2007 the Museum commissioned Richard Strong, the noted Landscape Architect, to refine and implement the waterfront portion of Dan’s Master Plan.
Strong, a graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design and former partner of Hideo Sasaki, the leading landscape architect and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, worked closely with staff and the Building Committee during the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008, to create a flowing design which integrates the six buildings on the Museum’s water front campus. Grater Architects was then retained to create working drawings and in June 2008 the project was put out to bid. Thousands Islands Property Service won the landscaping portion of the contract, Purcell Paving won the paving contract, Rusty Johnson Masonry won the concrete contract and Kathleen Murphy won the contract for gardens.
In May 2009 phase one of the Master Plan was completed and the scope of work includes a landscaped lawn between the Haxall and Dodge Launch Buildings providing a meandering sidewalk from the street to the McNally Yacht House. It also includes paved drives and accessible sidewalks, new lawns with an in-ground irrigation system, over seventy trees and shrubs, two heirloom flower beds, and an eastern access door to the Dodge Launch Building so that large boats no longer have to be trundled through the museum’s campus.
Among the seventy trees and shrubs that were planted are the following genus as know by their common names: Moraine Honey Locust, Sugar Maple, Crab Apple, Siberian Crab Apple, Cherry, Sargent Berries, River Birch, Canoe Birch, Pin Oak, Tulip Tree, Star Magnolia, Pissard Plum, Cockspur Thorn, Yew, Ginkgo Biloba, American Yellow-Wood, and White Pine.
Created by Kathleen Murphy, who is a garden designer/consultant and the proprietor of Olde Tyme Again, the two Museum heirloom gardens will abound with antique flowers of beautiful colors, graceful forms and lovely fragrances. Kathleen has a nursery specializing in heirloom plants which she raises from seed in her greenhouse. These varieties have been in existence for over fifty years, and in many cases much longer. They are open-pollinated by bees and insects and have been passed down from generation to generation and who can resist flowers with such delightful names as Painted Tongue, Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate and Sweet Rocket to name just a few.
The gardens are a lovely addition to the grounds project completed this spring and their charm and beauty will enhance the buildings, waterfront and our collection of antique boats. On July 3rd the Museum dedicated these new grounds and gardens with fireworks and a formal POSH GARDEN PARTY.
Listing of Antique Flowers in Museum Heirloom Gardens:
Perennials:
Yellow Foxglove,
Sea Holly,
White Valerian,
Delphinium,
Hollyhock,
Rose Campion,
Sweet William,
Peach-Leaved Bellflower,
Spiked Speedwell, Globe Thistle,
Oriental Poppy,
Lambs Ears,
Lavender,
Peony.
Annuals: Painted Tongue,
Tall Verbena,
Love in a Mist,
Heliotrope,
Rainmaster Petunia,
Balcony Petunia,
Painted Sage,
Black Pincushion,
Cosmos,
Apple of Peru,
Snapdragon,
Honeywort,
Nicotiana mutabilis,
Love Lies Bleeding ‘viridis’,
Woodland Tobacco,
Morning Glory,
Hyacinth Bean Vine.
Shrubs: English Shrub Roses,
Viburnum,
Hydrangea,
Lilac.
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