The lampposts, astrolabe and benches are all remnants of Alys’s creation.
David Santos’s spring color scheme features blue hyacinth, and red and white bleeding heart.
David Santos’s spring color scheme features blue hyacinth, and red and white bleeding heart.
Flowering plants are donated annually from area garden centers. Here petunias, marigolds and celiosa bloom in between Alys’s stone-and-concrete walks. Billowing blue hydrangeas tie the garden scheme together. The impressive Arts and Crafts-style house features bands of tile above windows and doors, and even on the underside of the tile awning.
Flowering plants are donated annually from area garden centers. Here petunias, marigolds and celiosa bloom in between Alys’s stone-and-concrete walks. Billowing blue hydrangeas tie the garden scheme together.
One half of the “Two Hearts” garden is full of pretty petunias.
Stegosaurus-like dinosaur walls back many of the flower beds, giving them extra shelter from offshore breezes.
White lillies flourish in the coastal air.
The view east, off the end of Fisher’s Island, opens out to the Atlantic Ocean.
A chapel, dedicated in 2002, is the spiritual heart of the island. Harald Hefel, of Hefel Masonry, LLC, says, “Enders Island reached out to local contractors to make this church; its creation was like a family event.” Two hundred and fifty tons of stone came from a quarry in Franklyn, CT. Cornerstones were salvaged from a dismantled boys’ school in Rhode Island; just seven cornerstones remained when the chapel was completed.
Views from the arbor look out over dinosaur walls to Fisher’s Island Sound and Latimer Reef Light. Families, whose lives have been changed by time spent at Enders Island, have left memorial stones throughout the garden.
Views from the arbor look out over dinosaur walls to Fisher’s Island Sound and Latimer Reef Light. Families, whose lives have been changed by time spent at Enders Island, have left memorial stones throughout the garden.
Views from the arbor look out over dinosaur walls to Fisher’s Island Sound and Latimer Reef Light. Families, whose lives have been changed by time spent at Enders Island, have left memorial stones throughout the garden.
