A Private Garden Tour of Landscape Designer Andrew Grossmans’ Home Garden. June 2024

Come see the home garden of award-winning landscape designer Andrew Grossman with us. Andrews home and gardens sit on his 1 acre property in Seekonk Massachusetts, just 10 minutes away from Providence, RI. The garden consists of several distinct spaces where Andrew has created garden rooms, or sections he has called his display gardens. The gardens on Andrews property are stunning, and his attention to detail is evident at every turn. From the plant pairings he’s chosen, as well as in the details he has added. The 4 display gardens include a hot colored garden with a beautiful checker board patio interplanted with thyme, a blue-and-white garden with a rectangular lily pond, a gorgeous lattice house with a secret garden view of a rustic pond surrounded by bog plantings, and a swimming pool garden. You will also find a cutting garden currently planted with David Austin roses, dinner plate dahlias, and sun flowers. The house and property has been featured in numerous national publications, including Design New England, Old House Journal, Garden Gate, Country Living Gardener, Country Home, and Fine Gardening. In 2016 the gardens were awarded first place in HGTV’s Gorgeous Gardens competition. Come take a private tour with me of Andrew Grossmans beautiful home gardens.
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Andrew Grossman’s Website: https://www.andrewgrossman.com/
Garden Conservancy Website: https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/garden-directory/Andrew-Grossmans-Garden

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[Music] the sun is shining right through there so [Music] pretty hi it’s step and tonight I’m in seong Massachusetts at a beautiful private Garden designed by Landscape designer Andrew grman and he is going to walk us through his amazing Gardens and we’re going to get a private tour of this space I’ve done a preliminary walkthrough and I’m just in amazement of its beauty so let’s go ahead and Andrew will walk us around so we’re going to start here Andrew what part of your garden would you call this okay so I call this my Cottage Garden and it has a color scheme that is basically everything but red and orange so there’s some yellow pinks purples um white but it’s basically soft colors it’s sort of what I consider to be welcoming colors it’s beautiful and colors that really kind of flatter the house which has natural wood shingles as a backdrop originally the house was clabbered but because there was so much work involved with painting I had it changed to shingles um which I also think is a really nice backdrop for the plantings it really is you have lots of Rose camp on this one’s beautiful I have the pink but this one is white yeah so I had planted a bunch of that last year in this garden and those are just a few that self- seated um you know and volunteered in this area in this area and I really rely a lot on sort of The Whimsy of volunteering plants a lot of like for instance I didn’t plant this Holly Hawk here it is beautiful this just grew here and actually most years it doesn’t make it cuz groundhogs usually just it well look at this year it’s going to have a great year but this year looks like it’s going to have a great year and it’s so healthy and vigorous yep because this particular type of Hol Hawk really likes a grally drier soil so it’s quite happy actually a couple years ago one also came up right here and there was like a pair of them that just self seated so we’re going for asymmetry this year oh and your scabiosa what a beautiful centerpiece here yeah you know what I have never had any luck with this blue Miss scabiosa in the garden ever and this year I very early on I must have planted this almost 2 months ago I stuff six of them into this pot and they have just been blooming like crazy really surprised for me they do well I’ve had them growing they’re short shortlived perennial but the pollinators love them and they last for me until our first Hot Drop oh that’s great cuz in my garden they never last they just sort of wither way so I’m amazed that they do so well in hopefully this year they’ll do well and this Garden is In Bloom as most of my Gardens are really In Bloom from well this year it was end of February I had hell bores blooming end of February and then it was just non just nonstop until Frost do you have a lot of spring blooms yeah I have a a ton of spring bulbs daffodils tulips frideres um and then all so some early spring blooming lickness and things like that so it really is colorful really from March on what is this that’s ruella it’s uh called false petunia and it makes a blue again this self-seed I planted some and then it’s sort of self-seed along the edges of the garden um it has a blue flower that doesn’t really look like a petunia um but it’s pretty hearty if the groundhogs don’t get it yeah it’s kind of fuzzy kind of texture it’s cool yeah with this honeysuckle your honeysuckle sounds nice yeah so that makes up for the Roses yeah a little bit it’s so pretty the sun is shining right through there so pretty so this is the Eden climber and honeysuckle that’s makes a great combination I like when people do this when they even combine like clamus well that’s over there I have a blue chaus with that rose with the rose oh yeah you do on that t there my so I I really try to do as many combinations as I can that way something’s always in blue yes Andrew is telling me all about his beautiful Tupelo tree I asked him if he’s limed it up and he says that it’s just growing in this really beautiful shape that’s creating like this Whimsical kind of canopy yeah it’s made a beautiful canopy and actually when it was smaller years ago when I would have parties we would clear out the bottom and put blankets down and pillows and make like a secret little Hideway under this tree but the but the best time to see it is in the fall when it turns scarlet and it’s just a beautiful Scarlet cone it’s really gorgeous so cool so cool and it makes such a beautiful um sort of passageway from your cottage style garden over to your next Garden yeah although originally I mean one thing it has done though is cast a huge amount of shade over here this used to be full sun when this was smaller I mean at some point I’m going to have to limit back limit back a little bit but I do love it it’s a beautiful tree it is beautiful and that is something that as gardeners we always have to contend with right as things change as things grow the light conditions in certain parts of our garden are going to change as well that’s right and you’re going to and things that maybe did well aren’t going to do as well and things that maybe wouldn’t have liked it will like it so you’re you’re constantly you know adapting and changing course so this is my hot colored Garden although I am playing with it more color-wise so I sort of am thinking it more now as a jewel toned Garden uh so it basically doesn’t have pink or white or pale colors and there’s a lot of contrast going on from reds and oranges and yellows so this is supposed to be a very kind of like energized space uhhuh well it’s gorgeous this is an annual Salvia right that’s an an annual Salvia called Roman red it’s pretty and it should really get a lot bigger and do that all summer long gorgeous pop up that’s another euphoria that gets huge oh wow right in the back there yeah that that is like yellow in the spring and then this is is that a manard right there a no that is um that’s a new helianthus oh I’m blanking on the name I literally oh I know which one it is it’s the yellow and red red heart or gold heart or something yes I saw it at Sven last year the first time I just bought that so pretty and you have some nesia here and some AUM yes so cool that’s a pretty color and your GM is still going GM is M finished up but like you know down the road I’ll take out some of the early spring stuff like the cangas and I’ll just put in something else yes yes do you like to grow from seed yeah I do and I since I have a small Greenhouse now I’ve grown a lot of stuff from seed and it it’s really fun it’s some are more successful than others that’s a fuchsia yeah so pretty I love the dark foliage anything that has a bright Bloom with dark foliage I love yeah I like that too and I I like the contrast of all the Fage like the rusty colius that’s going to get quite big and the cacia that’s going to get quite big um I’m growing that colus for the first time this year the Color Blaze Sedona sunet or something there’s so many of them now yeah they’re and they’re breeding colus now to be able to withstand sun and shade which is amazing that’s right so you can really plant them almost anywhere you want now this this is a site so this is my checkerboard patio and it’s planted with thyme a kind of it’s called lemon thyme it has sort of a char cruy color um it smells really wonderfully it does um it is a lot of Maintenance though because pretty soon I’m going to have to hand trim all of these squares there’s really no fast way to do it um but it’s worth it because I love the effect and I also really like how it joins two doors and a staircase that are not really lined up together so that’s one of the reasons I put this here at the time I didn’t have have that addition but I had this door and this staircase which aren’t lined up and I used the checkerboard to sort of blur that yeah that’s great that’s a great use of the space and it also creates sort of like a courtyard feel yes which is really nice and now we’re going to step down here into my blue and white Garden oh how fun now this is the blue and white Garden which is kind of blue white violet I try to keep purple um and it’s a it’s having a little bit of a quiet period right now it was very showy when in the spring when the dogwoods and and the aelas were blooming in a couple more weeks the white roses will come out and Al the a still be so it’s having this is a little it’s a little green right now look at all of this metal r that you have here this is incredible yes so all that just self seeds and at a certain point I’ll decide I have too much of it and I’ll rip it out I’ll just rip it out that’s what happens to all of us so pretty and your Annabel’s um yeah well that’s actually the improved one though incredible good incredible that’s good cuz they have a bit more sturdy stem and a little bit more sun tolerance true and your flocks this looks like the fashionably early CST yes it is oh good I have that one as well it is your kitty and then this gets covered with roses and there’s Clement on here this year I’m actually trying this white you can’t really see it but this this white thumb to see if it will climb up into things I’m always trying to like you know plant three things as opposed to just one to get the space to like really work hard there’s a funny story with these earns so I actually honestly would never have bought these ears for myself but um I had was doing a job at a Seven Star Bakery on Hope Street I was doing their garden and I started chatting with an interior designer who was having coffee there and then a few weeks later he called me and said that he was moving back to California and he had these two ears and if I could move them I could have them and that was a job I bet right it was it took a lot of guys and some machine um but they really and I split them up because CU two of them together is just too much here but I I think they’re really fun they are and your Campanella is going to be glorious there’s a ton of it self-seed through there gorgeous you’re hosta look at this we cannot miss this gorgeous Pond that you have as well the sound of the of the frogs and the water yeah I really enjoy this Pond I mean it is not an aquarium so my water features tend to be much more in the European mode which is you know the water’s not crystal clear it isn’t necessarily about looking at fish right it’s more about the water plants and these water lies are grown in pots so beautiful but they’re really doing well this year and then this is the water is just on a recirculated pump nice your uh boom chocolada uranium I love this one because it has this dark foliage yeah the foliage is really beautiful really beautiful aliam do you have white and purple aliam I do oh nice I haven’t tried white ones yet I would like to though yeah the white I find the white ones are nice but really the purple ones make a better show yeah yeah gorgeous this is gorgeous so pretty so now why don’t we walk up and see all the David Austin Roses let’s do it impressed by the size of the poppies here yes so these poppies a lot of times on the package these are um those P poppies somniferum and a lot of times it says to plant them outside to just scatter them but I find that it’s really hard to get good plants out of that so I actually start them inside in flats and then I transplant them to Peete pots which I plant in the ground and I find I get a much more vigorous more vigorous plant out of it’s gorgeous I can’t wait until those Boom for you they’re going to be stunning they’re a dark color yes they’re like a double almost black so these are your David Austin so the these are all David Austin Roses David Austin is an English rosarian um famous for hybridizing this very old style look of roses as opposed to the t- Rose these are what’s called quartered or cabbage roses that open up and I have to honestly say that um they’ve never looked this good and this bed has in the spring it has dwarf narcissus then it has irises and poppies and the teao and the David Austin Roses and growing in these are um dinner plate dalas which is really a great way to support them and literally by September this will be they’ll be taller than this that’ll be beautiful so why don’t we go take a look at the swimming pool Garden yes let’s do that these are beautiful I love these obelisks they make such a wonderful like statement walking down this this is almost like um like a path with my with the Roses yeah I like the phys I like the structure that they provide even early in the season when there’s nothing on them this is definitely the queen of Sweden yes smells so good and they’re so nice and upright beautiful your honeysuckle these Eden roses on this Arbor look stunning and I was talking to Andrew about how I have a hard time with roses in general but more so with climbing roses because it’s really difficult to tie them up um so that they can grow nicely but he has a little trick that he shared with us and it’s that he uses electrical wire to sort of trellis these roses up the arbor because it’s twisty and bendy you can reuse it and it’s been working really well and it also camouflages really nicely with the canes of the Roses you wouldn’t even know that they were there yeah I F I I was looking for something to tie up roses and I just sort of stumbled upon this idea and it really has made actually tying up almost anything so much easier because you don’t have to tie a knot right and when you’re trying to tie something together and you have to tie a knot and there’s thorns and everything else this is so easy you just do a quick twist and you’re done beautiful that’s wonderful so let’s go look at the swimming pool Garden yes okay so this is our swimming pool garden and um I this is actually the lowest maintenance Garden on the property it is actually very low maintenance it’s mostly flowering shrubs and shrub roses once I do all the trimming in the spring it really just requires Dead Heading and mowing the lawn um I don’t plant a lot of things in it I do plant some things around the pool and I do the pots but my goal is that it’s one and done it is beautiful so I don’t really play with it a lot it’s also easier because this is also a garden that’s really just for June July August and September so it doesn’t have spring bulbs I don’t really care that there’s no color in the spring cuz we’re not using it yeah your roses are fabulous yeah they really are gorgeous this year and a lot of that just has to do with the winter I think yes we had a mild winter this year we had a really mild winter because everything looks really good your IA design is spectacular in this area the way that you’ve repeated your plants with the grasses and with is this boxwood or Holly boxwood and your grass here or is this a CarX um that this is a Carrick yeah this is ice dance po potentilla yeah potentilla spia gge there’s I will say that this is a garden that is very easy to recreate and if I had any advice for any home Gardener it would be plant in big groups keep your overall plant selection to a minimum which means not a lot of variety but big groups of whatever variety you choose and that’s really the key to a beautiful garden it it makes it more cohesive it makes it cohesive when when any one group is blooming it’s very show MH and you don’t really I mean it’s great having a lot of variety and it’s really fun but if you want to lower your maintenance this is how you do it right and you have some are these like Iceberg roses no those are drifts those are white and so it’s all over maintenance it’s Drift Roses NEPA Gala and um NE NEPA yep yep and actually this NEPA um this is Walker low oh yeah um but I actually cut it really hard about a month ago because otherwise it’s Bloom too early uh for this Garden so I cut it down when it’s about this big and then it comes back in nice and full and it blooms at the time that I want it to BL so you did the famous Chelsea CH yes the I’m a big fan of the Chelsea CH I like it too oh your ferns these must are these the Kimberly ferns they’re more upright Yep they’re more upright this is gardinia Kimberly Ferns and more of the dipladenias which you know super easy oh yeah I’m a huge fan huge fan of the diplas and the mandavilla they’re low maintenance drought resistant full they just really need the Sun but other than that they’re super easy so these roses enter the Queen Elizabeth yes this is actually a t- rose surprisingly cuz t- roses tend to be more fussy but uh a rosarian recommended this to me and I planted it last year and this year it’s just phenomenal it really is and underplanted with this geranium is this the Roseanne y That’s the Roseanne geranium which kind of just hides the bottom and climbs up a little bit through them it’s so beautiful because honestly once this flush of Bloom is gone these roses aren’t going to be that showy they will bloom again once I cut them back but um you know this is the June FL is the this is really the peak but we are using the pool now so it’s it’s nice to have them here oh beautiful and you have some ferns here which look so pretty nice this is a really great border plant the fern yeah I just added that in actually cuz I felt like I wanted a little bit more Edge on this bed and then these are hydranga trees those are Rows of Sharon trees so there’s a ton of stuff those the Against The Back Fence is uh Limelight hydranges and white rose of Sharon you know this Garden really kicks in from now until end of September this is gorgeous and your gar yeah I haven’t had it come back for me reli oh this didn’t come back I replaced it you replaced it the only places I know that can grow that reliably is if you have really sandy soil uhh well draining well draining it can’t take any moisture sitting on it in the winter no oh my gosh have one more place I want to show you the lattice house oh the lattice house I can see it from here gorgeous okay so the lattice House was built after we finished the swimming pool there had been a rot iron gazebo there um but I decided I wanted something a little bit more structural and the thing that I really love about the Lis House is the sort of surprise view you get when you open the door it is gorgeous what a surprise look at this so pretty do you sit here often I don’t sit in the garden much no I don’t think any of us I only do when come when when friends come over I sit in the garden otherwise I almost never do right that is a problem with us gardeners isn’t it we are just glutton for work we see a weed we pull it here we pull it there and before we know it you know it’s time to go in for the nights but your bamboo has gotten pretty vigorous yeah yeah this bamboo is crazy it is a clumping variety so it isn’t it’s not running but it’s very happy and it’s certainly gotten bigger than I thought it would but I I love it so I think it softens the side of the lattice house which I which is this this structure is extremely tall for an outside structure and I did that on purpose because of all of the stuff that’s growing around it I really wanted it to be a focal point it really is and it’s gorgeous and I like how it’s kind of it’s this part of your property seems to be a bit higher it is the highest part of the prop yeah so it really just makes a statement in this side and the view in the front which we’ll look at gorgeous so this is a man-made pond so I made this Pond again this was sort of a little challenge to myself to see if I could make a pond that looked natural uhhuh and I I think I’ve been pretty successful I would say um in the spring there’s wisterias that bloom on either side um the water lies Bloom and then there’s just a variety of plants that like wet soil um that bloom in it you know kind of throughout the season your yellow Iris really pop here yeah that’s just the yellow flag Iris and it really likes it wet and that’s ligularia that self seeds so does this Bloom yellow yes this blooms yellow in the fall and this is one of those big hibiscus so usually the yellow liul is blooming at the same time as this is a big white with sort of a pink Center so nice perennial hibiscus I really I’m a fan of the perennial hibiscus yeah I love them too and they’ve done so much breeding with them lately I mean the the range and color and size and form is really unbeatable and they’re great with wet soils yes they like it wet yeah do you have any are there any design trends that you’re seeing that are changing or that have evolved over the years well you know I mean I think color scheming has really changed a lot I can remember you know in the ’90s it was all about pastel colors it was all about pinks and whites and Silvers and pale blues and now people are really embracing brighter colors hot colors so many of the annuals um that had fallen out of favor for a long time maragold zenas Kanas dalas are now really back in fashion and people are just growing them like crazy so Andrew how long have you been a landscape designer um well I started my landscape design business officially in 1993 but I have always done gardening work um even when I was a professional dancer I did gardening work and also worked as a floral designer so I’ve kind of always had my hand in it but when I retired from dancing I just segued into the design work wonderful and do you open up your garden for tours yes my garden is often open for tours um often Garden clubs will contact me about arranging a tour private groups whatever it’s easy to just get in touch with me by going to my website which we will list I will list Andrew’s website down in the description of the video as well as in the pinned comment and if you’re part of the garden conserv yes so I’m I will be opening this Garden on this year September 15th I believe as part of the Garden conserves open days program which is wonderful you get to tour different Gardens um so if you are interested in doing garden tours to go to attend different garden tours that’s a good website to check out as well that I’ll leave below so Andrew I want to thank you so much for showing your beautiful garden to us this evening I’ve had a wonderful time talking through the garden with you and just looking at all of these beautiful spaces that you’ve created oh well thank you so much for coming it’s been wonderful sharing it with you on such a beautiful June night it really is and hopefully next I’ll be coming to visit you at your garden yes I would love that very much okay so thank you so much everyone for spending your time with us and I’ll catch you in the next one [Music] thanks for watching this video if you liked it please hit the thumbs up button and please consider subscribing so you don’t miss any of my future videos and we’ll see you soon [Music]