In 1939 wealthy founders of a pharmaceutical company bought a big farm in Westchester County, New York. William and Mildred Lasdon had strong interests in horticulture, world travel and philanthropy. They picked up unusual plant specimens in their travels and planted them on this property.
In 1959 they donated 22 acres to Westchester County. In 1986 the county bought the rest of the property from the Lasdon family. It is now a 234 acre park with woodlands, open grass meadows and formal gardens with flower and shrub specimens from all over the world.
The Lasdon family owned a Colonial Revival-style house on the campus that reminded me of Mount Vernon. I was there last Tuesday, but the house is not open to the public until next week.
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What a wonderful place with such beautiful gardens. Are you going back to tour the house? The green house looks like a 19th Century construction.
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