Field Trip to Sleepy Cat Farm, Greenwich

The 13 acres of Sleepy Cat Farm have evolved over the last 25 years in close collaboration between the present owner, Fred Landman, and Virginia-based landscape architect Charles J. Stick. The landscape bordering Lake Avenue includes an extensive greenhouse and potager. “The Barn,” distinguished by its half-timbered French Normandy vocabulary, is surrounded by thyme- covered terraces, providing an elegant stage set for a fine collection of garden ornament, sculpture, and boxwood topiary. The visitor’s experience of the garden unfolds as pathways lead from garden room to garden room in a carefully orchestrated series of discoveries. The central portion of the garden is distinguished by two parallel garden spaces; the first is dominated by a long reflecting pool, terminated on the north end by a wisteria-covered arbor, and on the south end by a pebble mosaic terrace and fountain basin. One of the great surprises of the tour is the adjacent…