gardens

The Compton Oak, a live oak, on Market Square.

A small field of pumpkins grow in a garden in the Historic Area.

Glass bell jars protect plants in the Colonial Garden and Nursery on a foggy morning. Bruton Parish Church can just be seen in the background.

An interpreter picks vegetables in the Great Hopes Plantation garden in the fall.

A view through the gate of the kitchen garden at the Benjamin Powell House.

A rear view of the Benjamin Powell House, outbuildings, and gardens after a January snowfall.

A flowering dogwood tree and several hedges frame the Benjamin Powell Kitchen.

Stock; Powell House Kitchen Garden; Digitalis

A Lantana flower peeps out between the pickets of the fence at the Benjamin Powell House, fall, 2010.

Detail of Chenopodin capitatum or 'Strawberry Blite' - an heirloom flower blooming in the Lewis House Garden.

Nicotiana or "Flowering Tobacco" blooms in the Benjamin Powell Kitchen Garden in the spring.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

Aerial view of the Governor's Palace and surrounding gardens taken by a drone.

Radish blooms in the spring at the Colonial Garden.

Spring tulips bloom in the Historic Area.

Flanked by four boxwood topiaries, a native dahoon holly is the featured plant in the Bryan House garden.

Tulips bloom in the spring garden at the James Geddy House.

A cardinal sits in a snow covered tree in the Lewis House garden.

Fresh produce for sale at the weekly farmers market on Merchants Square.

Spring tulips bloom in the Colonial Garden with Bruton Parish Church seen just over the white picket fence.

A musician plays a guitar in the gardens behind the Governor's Palace.

An interpreter sits on a garden bench with a basket of yarn and two young girls behind the James Geddy House.

A junior interpreter water plants with a bucket in the James Geddy House garden.

Two young girls admire black-eyed susan flowers in the James Geddy House garden.