Chanticleer Garden

The estate was built in 1912 as a summer cottage for Christine Penrose and Adolph G. Rosengarten Sr., the latter of whom was the head of Rosengarten & Sons, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical manufacturer that his family had founded in 1822 to produce quinine. The company later merged with Merck & Co in 1927.[5] Upon inheriting the estate, their son, Adolph G. Rosengarten Jr. established a foundation to ensure that Chanticleer would be developed as a public garden.

The name Chanticleer is derived from the French word for rooster, "chanticleer" . The entrance gate is crested with carved stone rooster and other references to roosters can be found throughout the estate. Adolph G. Rosengarten Jr. hired Christopher Woods, a native of Britain, to develop the garden. After Rosengarten, Jr.'s death in 1990, Woods became the founding Executive Director and began a radical revision of the garden. He tore down Mr. Rosengarten's stone house to create what is now known as "The Ruin".[6]

Chanticleer consists of a collection of open lawns and large trees. Different sections of the botanical gardens include:[3][7][8]

• Chanticleer House, the Main House, connecting to the entrance and Teacup Garden, which includes an open air porch, providing a popular spot for visitors to sit and relax
• Asian Woods, planting for which began in 1995, after being cleared the previous year, and now hosting a variety of species native to Korea, Japan, and China, but in the style of an American woodland garden
• Pond Garden, a large man-made circular pond constructed in the early 1970s, acting as a mirror for the trees that surround it
• Teacup Garden, a small-scale garden serving as the entrance courtyard to the property
• Minder Woods, a heavily vegetated area with towering red oaks and dark green pines, firs, false cypresses, and hemlocks, accessible via meandering stone paths
• Tennis Court Garden, estate's old tennis court, transformed into a dynamic garden
• "The Ruin" Garden, the Minder House, built in 1925 and razed in 1999 to offer a series of spaces, pools, and fountains
• Gravel Garden, small garden spaces, connected by a series of steps, and home to a variety of species of plants that are rare to the area and climate
• Cutting Garden, a traditional cottage garden with a series of arches, fashioned from rebar and driftwood, providing venues for clematis and annual vines
• Vegetable garden, where rustic benches help frame a simple traditional American vegetable garden
• Bell's Run, with adjacent woods giving way to undulating lawns, a stream, and a functional 1940s waterwheel
• Bell's Woodland, a naturalistic garden devoted to plants indigenous to the eastern U.S.
• Bulb Meadow, on a hillside, highlighted by Spanish bluebells and fragile daffodils

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  Asian Woods
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  Ruin and Gravel Garden
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  Plants on the Croquet Lawn in front of the main house
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  Garden Path
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  Landscape
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  Wall of ruin
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  Portion of ruin
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  Chanticleer House
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  Bell's Run

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• List of botanical gardens in the United States

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• Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden by Adrian Higgins. Photographs by Rob Cardillo