Garden Oasis -- Real Estate -- Listings of the Week

It’s a gardener’s paradise in Stockbridge: this shingle-style home has seasonally blooming perennials, extensive rock garden plants, rare species, and established flower beds. A two-story foyer leads to a sun-filled living room with fireplace, library, dining room adjacent to a dining porch, and a large eat-in kitchen with a wall of windows facing the gardens. On the second floor is the master suite with a grand European-style bathroom and two other bedrooms, one with a fireplace; these rooms open to a balcony porch with gardens views. Through the gardens and stone paths is an in-ground swimming pool surrounded by a large stone patio. Listed for $2.15 million by Stone House Properties.