North Mystery Group viewed the beautiful Fuller Garden in North Hampton on a lovely warm May Day. We had the place to ourselves and thoroughly enjoyed the peaceful spring setting.
The formal rose gardens designed in the Colonial Revival style were commissioned during the late 1920s by Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller and designed by the Olmstead Firm as an ornament to his summer estate. The meticulously maintained rose gardens with hundreds of varieties begin their season long bloom cycle in late June and continue through October. The Japanese garden is usually in bloom in May and English the perennial plantings provide a continuous array of color and interest from spring until fall. A DAHLIA display garden also is full of color all season. The gardens are lined within large sculpted hedges, and the rose beds are framed in an array of superbly kept turf paths.
Afterwards we enjoyed a delicious lunch at Petey’s Summer Seafood restaurant in nearby Rye, NH.
Sheila P
