INSIDE GRAY GARDENS

...Then there was the garden, named by former owner Anna Gilman Hill, author of "Forty Years of Gardening." We had to take everyone's word that there was actually a garden there. Happily we found Hill's book and a cache of old photographs showing the garden as it originally was, surrounded by dunes, just a few yards from the sea. "It was truly a gray garden," Hill wrote in her book. "The soft gray of the dunes, cement walls and sea mists gave us our color scheme as well as our name." She allowed "only flowers in pale colors" inside the walls.

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How I Fell in Love With Grey Gardens

Sally Quinn

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 16, 2009

This captivating place ~with gorgeous photos~ inside Gray Gardens, before and after from the New York times, Homes and Gardens...The Secret Gardener