Welcome to the Houghton Garden, a 10-acre parcel in Newton, Massachusetts that includes a wild garden listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its gracious paths, flanked by azalea and rhododendron, wind around a stream and lagoon-like pond. The alpine rock garden on a ledge overlooking Houghton Pond was one of the first of its kind. Especially lovely are the climbing hydrangea, the naturalized lily-of-the-valley, the wood hyacinth, the umbrella pine, and other exotic evergreens.
In any season, the Houghton Garden is a place of natural beauty and refuge.
History
In 1906, Mr. and Mrs. (Martha) Clement S. Houghton, built their Spanish-American home on Suffolk Road in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Gardens
In 1918 Martha became an admirer of the English Rock Garden and began work on an alpine rock garden overlooking the pond.
Preservation
In 1958 after Mrs. Houghton's death, the ground were abandoned and he property eventually subdivided. The beloved "wild garden" fell into decay.