Butterstream Gardens

Started in the early 1970's, Jim Reynolds has has amassed a collection of choice perennials and shrubs, arranging them in both formal and informal settings. He has gradually added a series of garden rooms in his landscape, each with its own theme and focal points. In his White Garden, he has built a tower so that he could look down on on the formal gardens below. Only a few years old, the tower looked as though it had been there for centuries and the entire scene seemed reminiscent of the White Garden and Tower at Sissinghurst Gardens in England. Walking from the Pool Garden, we strolled past the Obelisk Garden, then through the Laburnum Tunnel, and eventually opening onto the lawn and summer house. My eye was immediately caught by the brilliant yellow foliage of an expanding maple. Surely this was the butter at Butterstream.