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The design includes a rose garden, a shaded bowling green bordered by euonymus, flowering shrubs and Oriental Biota, a grove of great oaks, ivy-dad walls, an old pink Venetian well head that protects a deep, cod well, terraces bearing vases, low box-hedges and innumerable flowers. The effect is a “sense of separateness, of a certain aloofness almost, befitting the guardian of treasures, the storehouse of old secrets.”
After she penned that description in 1923, Mrs. Eustice built the reflecting pod at the north end of the bowling green and erected a memorial statue, a copy of a 15th century French madonna, in the boxgrove east of the reflecting pool. At the eastern end of the garden, she added a cutting garden that supplies most of the fresh flowers for the Oatlands House arrangements: tulips, peonies, daffodils, hyacinths, lilies, chrysanthemums, spring and autumn crocus, iris, blue salvia phlox and ageratum.
The grounds abound with 25 different spieces of song and game birds and with such wildlife as rabbits, squirrels and chipmonks. In addition, more than 40 different kinds of evergreens and hardwoods, native and exotic, are found on Oatlands 260 acres, now a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
“The garden,” wrote Mrs. Eustic, “recalls the English formal garden which derived some of its inspiration from Italina models — yet its atmosphere is typically Virt'
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