Gleasondale Garden

USE: Private Garden

LOCATION: Stow, MA

DATE COMPLETED: Ongoing

AREA: 4900sf

What was once an asphalt driveway has become a center point of plant learning and experimentation for OPRCH. This garden is a loose assembly of areas for food production, rainwater management, shady underplanting, dry meadow, lawnscape, septic drain field, gravel courtyard, hedgerow, and salt-prone roadside planting.

Flexible arrangements allow for testing of growth habits, visual interest, pollinator attraction, compatibility, and timing. The garden is particularly focused on species native to the regional ecology.

A variety of wildflowers, including purple coneflowers, lavender, and orange flowers, growing in a garden with green foliage and trees in the background.
Red and purple flowering plants growing in front of a light blue wooden building with two rectangular windows.
Pink cone flowers with dark centers and tall purple flowers with small buds among green foliage in a garden.
Colorful garden with purple and pink flowering plants, green bushes, and a gravel pathway, with rocks in the background.
A colorful garden with various flowers, including purple, pink, and yellow blooms, and surrounding green foliage, with a stone border and a road in the background.
A yellow house with blue accents and neighboring blue door, alongside lush green plants and purple flowers.
A white flower with green leaves surrounded by multiple small yellow butterflies with black spots on their wings.
Close-up of yellow and purple wildflowers in a natural setting.
A lush garden filled with tall purple, pink, and white flowering plants and green foliage.
A yellow house with a porch, surrounded by a lush garden with purple and pink flowers, potted plants, and outdoor furniture.
A turtle resting on a gravel and purple flowering ground cover, surrounded by green foliage.
Close-up of a purple flower with a small fly resting on its petals.

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