Filios Garden

Trumansburg, NY

Candy and Achilles Filios have been creating their own Greek paradise overlooking Cayuga Lake for several decades. The gardens are anchored by beautiful stone walls and outbuildings, including a potting shed that will make you drool with envy, all built by Achilles in the style of his native Greece. The gardens include many flowers and ornamentals, but also have a strong focus on food production. Candy's vegetable garden displays her passion for heirloom pumpkins and an heirloom tomato collection featuring over 30 varieties. A very unique feature of this garden are the “figgeries”, based on a technique for growing fig trees that the Filios' observed in an English garden.10' deep recessed chambers are lined with stone walls to retain the heat, and the top is open during the frost free months. In winter the chambers are covered with layers of plastic and the fig trees have thrived despite two very extreme winters in the northeast. The Filios' also have grapevines, an apple orchard and chestnut trees that provide them with abundant fruit and nuts each fall, and chickens in a special stone-lined run adjacent to one of the figgeries.

NOTE: This garden was featured on an Open Days Garden Tour and is not open to the public at other times.

Last updated October 15, 2022