Stonecrop Gardens is a public garden in Cold Spring, New York, U.S. Formerly the home of Anne and Frank Cabot, the founder of The Garden Conservancy, the ground became a public garden in 1992, directed by Caroline Burgess. A variety of gardens include woodland and water gardens, a bamboo grove, stone beds with alpine flowers, systematic flower beds and an enclosed English flower garden.^[1]

Stonecrop Gardens began as the private property of garden designers Anne and Frank Cabot, who built a manor house as their private residence, in Cold Spring, New York, in 1958.^[2] Frank Cabot founded The Garden Conservancy in 1989^[3] and after his death the property was passed to a nonprofit corporation, which uses the house as the headquarters for running the gardens.^[2][1]

Commissioned by the Cabots, the English horticulturalist Caroline Burgess helped, from the mid-1980s, to transform the gardens to a public garden which was opened in 1992. She has remained the director and kept diversifying the display gardens.^[3][1] The gardens are shown on tours among other public gardens of the area.^[4]

Stonecrop Gardens are located in the Hudson Highlands at a height of 1,100 feet (340 m).^[1] They show, across an area of 12 acres (4.9 ha),^[1][3] a variety of landscape gardens and a vegetable garden. They are reached by an unpaved road.^[2]

The grounds include woodland and water gardens, a grass garden and a bamboo grove, a rock garden and stone beds with alpine flowers and flower beds of perennials.^[2] Blooming plants include Ruta graveolens, Salvia uliginosa and Oxypetalum coeruleum.^[2] Systematic order flower beds show more than 50 plant families. An enclosed English flower garden,^[1] called "inner sanctum", is enclosed by walls covered with shrubs and roses.^[2] Beds of lilies show more than 75 varieties in many colors and shapes. A vegetable garden is protected by a scarecrow named Miss Gertrude Jekyll, after the garden designer who created more than 400 gardens in Europe, especially the UK, and the U.S.^[2] The gardens also feature a conservatory and a "display alpine house".^[1]