Marcia Reid Marsted prepares for visitors to her "Garden of Whimsy" on Indian Hill Road. Photo: dotCANTON
Some of the “whimsy” in Marcia Reid Marsted’s garden has been created by the Canton resident herself. Some has been crafted by friends. And some has been assembled by “a very creative gardening assistant,” Marsted says, who is able to take thoughts bouncing around her head and turn them into reality.
Marsted, who hesitates to use the word “artist,” prefers to describe herself as “a photographer, a writer and a gardener,” and, oh yes, a fly-fisherman. She recently showed photographs at Gallery On The Green in Canton of some of the exotic places she has fished … Senegal, India, New Zealand and the Farmington River among them.
Whimsy in a Canton garden. Photo: dotCANTON
After a little prodding, Marsted finally says, “I’m beginning to think of myself as a gardening artist.”
On Saturday, June 12, Marsted will be showing her “Garden of Whimsy” at 125 Indian Hill Road to anyone who wishes to visit as part of The Garden Conservancy’s annual Open Days program. In fact, the Marsted garden is one of two in Canton that are open to the public this weekend. The other, billed “Small Pleasures” by the conservancy, belongs to Walter Kendra (see post from June 10) at 16 South St. in Collinsville.
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