Garden Tour

Marjorie Merriweather Post, working with the best landscapers of her time, designed her gardens as rooms. She's buried near the room at the entrance where her friends repaid her hospitality with gifts of sculpture.

Sculpture borders the "Lunar Lawn," too.

Everybody loves her Japanese garden.  It's beautiful from every angle and mixes and matches decorative elements from several different eastern religions.

The clear water doesn't come cheap.  The foundation that runs the estate recently replaced the plumbing.

There's even a small putting green.

With decorative golf balls.

The living room looks over the French Parterre garden.

Zodiac signs decorate an outdoor lamp.

Hillwood is so impeccably maintained that I was surprised this fountain didn't work.