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Where The Wild Things Grow…
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The grounds of Chancton House are the stuff of woodland myth and fairytale dreams.
Garden hobbyist or botanist, Chancton’s seven acres have been meticulously curated and cared for by our onsite botanist and professional landscape designer and are guaranteed to delight guests of all ages.
(for our littlest guests, be sure to keep an eye out for fairy’s, they usually play beneath the pink flowers!)
curation
The mature gardens have evolved over 40 years of cultivation, massive trees shade the property and host bird life that will be the only noise you hear while at the house. You will see countless varieties of plants and flowers: rose, iris, peony, azalea, hydrangea, allium, spirea, Japanese willow, and much more.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
wild blooms
We invite guests to enjoy the gardens and feel free to clip some of your favorite blooms or foliage and arrange it some of our house supplied vases.
Our kind request is to please do this with respect to the land and only snipping what you desire to arrange for your stay.
We would love to see your arrangements, so please be sure to tag us in your work! @chanctonhouse #chanctonhouse
Chancton House Gardens
Ann Catchpole Howell, Horticulturalist
Meet Ann Catchpole Howell the incredible horticulturalist behind the magnificence that are the Chancton grounds.
Ann lives on-site at Chancton in Catchpole Cottage, the space above the garage. She is not only the designer behind the house, but also of the grounds. Once just a large hill descending in to two sweeping meadows, she designed the hardscaping, landscaping and masonry you see at the house. Be sure to ask her how the tazza, the large centerpiece in the bed adjacent to the pool, got down there.
The flower bed outside of the kitchen was the first one she designed on the property. It was filled with violas dug up from the lawn and any small offerings from friends. It was a tiny bed at first - only seven feet by one foot. As time passed, a veggie garden was planted with splash of color from some tulips. It evolved over the years into what it is today, Figgy’s Frog Pond Garden, where you will find lilies, peonies, hostas, baptista, spirea, a very old miss lilac, iris and day lilies. It is a wonder to watch it transform from its wintered state when everything gets leveled to the ground, and then rises up to be several feet tall with various shapes and colors. This flower bed is yet more impressive as it is largely self-seeding and requires almost no watering due to Ann’s strategic planning.
No matter the season, Chancton House and the romance of her surrounds—sun or light summer rains, snowfall or misty fall mornings—will feel like poetry to your soul. There is a certain magic at Chancton that stays with you long after you’ve left.