Berkshire Style - An Insider's Guide to Everything Berkshire

Garden Style

Design

Christine Krause Design Studio • Christine Krause is a boutique-level landscape designer who creates harmonious connections between people and their natural environments. What sets Christine apart from other landscape designers is her committed follow through and preparedness in the entire creative process.

Erin Robertson Design • Landscape Design for homes including; Outdoor Rooms, Swimming Pools, Entry Gardens and Garden Consultation.

Florists

Berkshire Orchids • “Ann Roberts Levine of Berkshire Orchids always has the most amazing and varied stock of orchids." – Martha Stewart’s Blog

Country Gardeners Florist • Fabulous Flowers!!!!!!!!

Kamilla Floral Boutique • As "your personal floral designer," Kamilla provides her clients with the highest quality cut flowers, a wide variety of orchids, unusual potted plants, and distinctive gifts, and will work closely with you to create floral designs for your wedding, party or special event. 

Thornhill Flower and Garden Shop • Thornhill Flower and Garden Shop is a real florist. We welcome orders and inquiries for flowers and arrangemnets for specific occasions. We can be contacted to place an order directly or for customer service questions during normal business hours. Our hours are 9 AM to 5 PM Monday through Saturday.

Garden Centers

Beardsley Gardens • A full service, landscape, maintenance, and garden center. Focusing on the right plant for the right place and person.

Rollins Landscaping and Garden Center • Specializing in organic and environmentally friendly products and deer resistant plant material. Open seven days a week from 8AM-5PM.

Salisbury Garden Center • A garden center and landscaping company based in Salisbury and are open year-round, the Salisbury Garden Center is the largest full service garden center and design/build landscaping company in northwestern Connecticut. Our Landscaping Division handles large and small projects adeptly, and if what you really enjoy is relaxing in the garden, our experienced gardeners can help you maintain what you have.

Twin Brooks Garden Center • A full service landscape and garden center, specializing in large, hard to find trees.

Ward's Nursery & Garden Center • Open year round: Ward's offers over 1400 varieties of perennials, 700 types of woody plants and thousands of annuals and seeds during the growing season; fall bulbs starting in September and a holiday showcase of cut greenery and decor in November and December; along with wild bird food and feeders, garden tools, accessories and nature- oriented gifts.

Webster • A Landscape Contracting company we are a team of dedicated professionals who bring creativity, ingenuity and quality to our projects. At Webster we strive to endow all of our work with timeless beauty, sustainability, abiding value and quality craftsmanship.

Windy Hill Farms • Windy Hill Farms is a diverse horticultural operation serving Berkshire, Litchfield and Columbia counties. It consists of a 7 acre apple orchard, an acre blueberry field, 8 acres of specialty ornamental nursery stock, a retail garden center and a full service landscape department.

Garden Wares

Campo de’Fiori • Garden and Shop Open Daily. Uncommon items and ideas for the Garden and Home.

G. Wolff Pottery • The architecture of the piece is my passion and is why I can look at 18th and 19th century English flowerpots and centuries old Asian vases with the same eye and ask the same question: What makes this antique pot so wonderful? The answer always comes back to the architectural integrity of the pot and the potter's reverance and knowledge of the materials he is using.

Public Gardens

Ashintully Gardens • The 30-year creation of contemporary composer John McLennan, Ashintully Gardens are a serene retreat in the Berkshires surrounded by forested hills and traversed by a rushing stream. Mr. McLennan’s emphasis on elegant form and proportion in music is expressed through his garden design.

Berkshire Botanical Garden • Berkshire Botanical Garden is one of New England's oldest and most treasured public gardens. Established in 1934, its mission was to inspire and educate the community about responsible horticulture and home-grown food. Today, with a year-round schedule of garden classes and workshops, guest lecturers and special events, it is still dedicated to these founding values and to the preservation and improvement of the local environment. Open daily 9 am–5 pm.

The Hebert Arboretum • The Hebert Arboretum is a living tree library located within one of Pittsfield's premier city resources, Springside Park. Encompassing 231 acres within the city, the park is a unique sanctuary for plant and animal life. Open year round.

Innisfree • From 1930 to 1960 Innisfree was the private garden of Walter and Marion Beck. At Innisfree the visitor strolls from one three-dimensional picture to another. Streams, waterfalls, terraces, retaining walls, rocks and plants are used not only to define areas but also to establish tension or motion. Innisfree is, unequivocally, an American garden. the lake is glacial, most of the plant material is native, and the rocks have come from the immediate forest. Innisfree is held in trust both for the people of New York and for people throughout the world to enjoy and study garden art.

Merwin House & Gardens • William and Elizabeth Doane purchased this handsome house in 1875 as their summer retreat. They named it "Tranquility," as it overlooks a peaceful bend in the Housatonic River.

Mission House & Gardens 1739 • Located on Main Street in Stockbridge, this National Historic Landmark was home to the first missionary to the Mohican Indians. It not only provides a glimpse into Colonial history but also the Native American tribe that lived here.