" Today we're getting together again with its curator mark -- to tour the gardens hi mark -- it. The house was inherited -- the daughter. Right -- show -- we'll check -- choate Pamela and she's responsible for all the work on the landscape -- right during her later years he designed eight acres of gardens surrounding the house."

" Working with Fletcher Steele landscape architect from Boston."

" And he was kind of an innovative guy is an estimated 193930s. -- at Harvard. And he's bringing a lot of new ideas into the field of landscape right fit exactly and here they had a lot of find able choate and Fletcher -- both traveled through Europe -- so they brought a lot of those ideas back in here in the afternoon garden where it."

" A central parts there of foxwoods. Contrasting borders that."

" That's Cole and me out. Marble chips yeah I'm I'm used to seeing an eighteenth century part here safe for a lot of bedding plants with color but here he's actually using -- is yet. Crushed marble and -- that's right."

" And what's that the oval in the middle in the center and inch thick piece of black plastic in the sense of buried deep pool reflecting pool. --"

" Thanks to contemplate. It's really a marvelous effect. And then of course the thing that really catches my eyes all the red and blue tops to the post here that look like they're right out of -- that's right. That disappointed -- able to its favorite European cities."

" So Fletcher steel haven't Scandinavian wood carver from his office card these Donald holds to remind her of her favorite -- an international effort."

" Give us an idea of the size of the property if -- total of fifty acres made of them or landscape can't. And where does this wonderful path with that the coursing watered down that the middle where does that lead to this leads to the birch -- which heads down the hillside."

" A series of four cascading stairs with fountains."

" You never think -- landscape. Architect or designer having fifty acres to play with but here he's -- some specialized things like -- these treaties. What's the deal with -- all the steps in the ramps. The -- water that starts up in the afternoon garden channels down here so below its flight of stairs -- accountant carrying water down hillsides of course with this terrain being so -- were in the berkshires the threat you had to do something practical minority get down there right and that's what they did yeah. But it's an unusual approach is not just a staircase now there was. Steep flight of stairs originally aha. They replaced it with a four. Like to cascading standards sources it's almost like a series of little ability ears that's right each one when you stop has a closer look at idea. But the surrounding landscape yes. That's right so the cutting gardens which were originally down at the end but they're no more right that's right in the green space them allow. It's really a beautiful statement you know it's the views. Well where to next. -- I would guess -- the rose garden and on the way we'll stop by the terraces all right."

" built on a hilltop. So the idea for the landscape designers to control it and they did that but building a series of terraces -- on the top terrorists here. It cascades down through an inspired apple and small oriental treat Dini sixty of them which were imported from the orient the 1930s. To a middle terrorists."

" And then finally a working terrorists down below an eighty foot greenhouse now the is valued apples look like they've been there for quite a few years -- they were put in in the late thirties. So -- detonates them indeed."

" Mrs. joke was traveling at a point in time where you can go through Europe. And you could collect things like this -- engine that's lead cistern from England yes pick things like that up. And Asia these oriental Spirit stones yeah. The Spirit stones are kept but the sister is actually that -- appeals to me so much to the garden is it something that belongs to the house that. The downspout from the the gutters of the rules would terminate here in this would be a collection point for water that's true in this once a seventeen -- seven is a wonderful thing and so what do we have here."

" Then down below we're looking at the rose garden. Took -- idea from."

" Oriental motifs for mushrooms you see the -- has represented by the marble chips and the caps of mushrooms with a for a bundle roses. Filling in this whole space."

" So is -- Chinese idea that's right. And the -- hardscape visit papers and to salute loose gravel in -- the -- held in place by rod iron strips okay. It's nice that non case is open to the public and we -- some of the public visiting right now but tell me about this this whole edge over here with a purple columns they're retaining wall is made out of wrought iron painted purple but Fletcher Steele and waited. Cyprus as the wood. The planks that Cyprus so that's actually holding up that whole terrace above which has these beautiful are providing these clipped -- provide -- planted on it. So is this the last garden that that they created."

" Actually the last garden and for the last twenty years of -- it's like they worked on the Chinese garden which is on the North End of the house. It combines a series of temples one large temple what is roof material imported from Peking. Surrounding that are a series of ornamental sculptures all imported from China. -- planted with Kinkos for shade there are Japanese have societies a large leafed verdict -- plant and the need. We have indigenous plants like father Hugo rose. Flowering cherries. Some Chinese finger stones which are water worn stones you know beautiful stones placed there for contemplation."