Open Days Garden Tour - Lion Garden - Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County

Open Days Garden Tour - Lion Garden

Flowers welcome you from the moment you arrive. Entrance plantings embrace the street and line the brick driveway, filled with hundreds of blooming perennials. The sound of flowing water emanates from three connected ponds containing lotus, water lilies, and koi. Large beds around the house are filled with perennials, and dozens of planted pots grace the deck on the shady hillside. The gardens continue down a steep, wooded hill, where borders of shade-loving perennials, groundcovers and shrubs surround a gazebo and folly. Woodland trails lead to a small ravine below the garden.

Directions:

From Ithaca, take Route 34 north along Cayuga Lake to where road runs into Route 34B at Rogue's Harbor Inn. Turn left onto Route 34B and go 5.5 miles to Cecil's Tavern on right. Turn left onto Lansing Station Road and go 1 mile. The house is on left, and wooden mailbox reads #219. Please park on left past driveway. Use parking brake as there is a steep incline. For handicap access, park in driveway.

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