Hillwood’s spectacular gardens capture the vision Marjorie Post conceived when rebuilding the estate in the 1950s. She hired prominent landscape architects Umberto Innocenti and Richard Webel to expand the existing gardens. Thirteen acres of formal gardens extend from the house’s terraces and porches in a progression of "outdoor rooms." Each of these rooms, meant to complement the mansion's interior spaces, is decidedly private yet connected to adjacent gardens through subtle transitional features, encouraging an intuitive flow from the French parterre to the rose garden and onto the Friendship Walk.

 

Terumi Gale, Palisades Village member and volunteer, will be our docent.

 

Please arrive at 11:00 to park and buy your ticket. The garden tour will start at 11:30.

 

Following the tour, guests can buy lunch at the beautiful cafe or tour the house -- or bring a picnic lunch and eat outside!

 

Full members, let us know if you need a ride.

 

Cost (payable at the desk upon arrival):

$15 garden tour only

$18 garden & house visit

Hillwood members: free