Gordon and Mary Hayward, Westminster West, VT

GORDON and MARY HAYWARD

Westminster West, VT

Gordon Hayward is a self-taught garden designer, lecturer, and author of ten books and nearly 100 articles for Horticulture magazine. In 2019, Gordon was made an honorary member of the Garden Club of America. Gordon and his wife, Mary, have been Open Days garden hosts, off and on, since 1998, as well as Digging Deeper presenters. Their one-and-a-half-acre garden surrounds their 1790 farmhouse in southeastern Vermont. Over the past 37 years, they have developed a hybrid of “Old England” and New England gardens, reflecting Gordon’s growing up on an orchard in northwestern Connecticut and Mary’s growing up on a farm outside Chipping Campden in the North Cotswold Hills of England. The garden, the subject of their book The Intimate Garden (WW Norton, 2005), is comprised of fourteen garden rooms.

“A 100-year-old St. Lawrence apple tree was here when we bought our 1790 farmhouse. It’s my favorite plant in the garden; I prune it as my father taught me as a boy in our orchard in Connecticut.”

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