Please note the change in venue
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Please note the change in venue 〰️
Please note the venue location has changed
and will now be held at:
The home of Ann Goodbody
55 Mudge Pond Road
Sharon, CT
You are cordially invited to attend
chore’s 15th annual Garden Party
celebrating 32 years of service
Sponsorship and Donation Opportunities Are Currently Available
INVITATION AND TICKET SALES TO FOLLOW
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INVITATION AND TICKET SALES TO FOLLOW 〰️
Join us for
Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres
Saturday, June 22, 2024
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
at the home of Ann Goodbody
55 Mudge Pond Road
The gardens of this 18th-century colonial home have evolved over the past 35 years. The house was originally part of Kingsland Farms, which was sold in 1986 when it was moved from its location directly on Mudge Pond Road to a hill overlooking the pond. Ebenezer Mudge had built the front part of the house, and for many years, it had been a working dairy farm owned by the Hart family. The site was barren except for a few trees and field grasses.
Ann partnered with Judy and Pat Murphy of Old Farm Nursery in Lakeville, CT, to design the gardens in a way that settles the house into the hillside and takes advantage of pond and hill vistas.
This lovely place has everything - a formal boxwood planted entrance, pergolas covered by wisteria, a terrace garden overlooking the lake with a long perennial border and formal herb garden, a semi-circular lawn terrace surrounding an elegant conservatory, a hillside meadow garden overlooking the lake with bluebells in spring, and grasses and daylilies in summer, a grass walk in the fields above the property, stone walls and a newly replanted boxwood allee, an extraordinary pool house and pool surrounded by perennial shrubs and long border of little quickfire hydrangeas. It is a place of joy and beauty.
