Garden Rambles

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Sycamore Hill Gardens is pleased to introduce our new self-guided gardens tours. These tours are self-booked and are $45 per passenger vehicle (up to 8 people per vehicle, including the driver). We offer 12 visits a day. 6 each morning and 6 each evening, first come first serve with bookings, with more days being added as we move through the summer. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to visit the garden.

Visitor Rules

• Tickets are per parking space. Each ticket is good for one passenger vehicle that holds up to eight people (including the driver). Visit alone, with friends, or with family. Anyone you want to bring in one vehicle, so long as there are not more than eight of you, rain or shine.
• No pets are allowed. Please note, however, that the property is patrolled by four working terriers.
• Quiet is not guaranteed as garden work is ongoing. Please be considerate of our one full-time employee who maintains the entire grounds.
• Parking is behind the barn. The house, a private residence, is not open to the public. The upper part of the barn is open, accessible by the upper driveway.
• Picnics are encouraged, as is plenty of hydration and sunscreen.
• No grilling.
• A portable toilet (porta potty) is on premises near the parking.
• Please do not throw anything into the ponds other than the provided koi food. Eating bread, crackers, or any other items you carry with you will cause the koi fish to bloat and possibly die, and many of them have been alive for decades. If no koi food is available, that means they have been fed their allotment for the day. Koi food can be found in a white bucket at the pond. Please reseal after use. Please use sparingly as a consideration to other guests who want to see the koi.
• Please take back out with you anything you bring into the garden.
• Tickets are rain or shine and are not refundable. We cannot control the weather.
• No visitors are permitted before sunrise or after sunset.
• No tree or tower climbing, please!

by Karen Hanford