Fort Ticonderoga garden opens Saturday

Ticonderoga

The King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga opens Saturday for the season.

The walled colonial revival garden was originally designed in 1921 by leading landscape architect Marian Coffin. The formal elements a reflecting pool, manicured lawn and hedges, and brick walls and walkways are balanced by annuals and perennials. It features heirloom flowers and modern cultivars to recreate a historic planting scheme.

Outside the nine-foot brick walls of King's Garden, the grounds also feature the Discovery Gardens, including a children's garden, an interactive 18th-century American Garrison Garden, and Three Sisters Garden.

The garden is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Oct. 13. The King's Garden is included with the general admission ticket to the historic fort on Lake Champlain.

There are guided tours through the garden offered daily as well other activities for both children and adult visitors.

Fort Ticonderoga is also commemorating Memorial Day by honoring the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. The fort will offer a "Salute to the Soldiers," which will include patriotic and 18th-century music and musket salutes to fallen soldiers, at 11 a.m. Monday. There will also be a musket firing demonstration where visitors can see the challenges of loading and firing the American Revolution-era weapon.

Tickets to the fort are $17.50 for adults, $15 for seniors age 65 and up. Admission for children 5-12 is $8 and children under 4-years-old are free.

Fort Ticonderoga is located at 30 Fort Ti Road, Ticonderoga; for more information, call (518) 585-2821.

Nick Niedzwiadek

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