Hopkinton's Stone House Grounds Breathtaking

Laurie Lindsay is energetic and welcoming, exactly like the property she manages on Hopkinton's East Main Street.

Laurie cares for the Stone House, property belonging to her former mother-in-law Alice Lindsay. The house, Laurie said, was built in 1790, and has been in Alice's family since 1840.

A few years back, Alice told Laurie she wanted the house to look its best. Laurie has cleared out overgrowth, planted new areas, restored sagging walls and used her eye for texture, shape, depth and color to bring it to its present breathtaking beauty.

On a tour of the grounds, Laurie notes each detail, explaining how shrubs seasonally enhance the property, flowers give it beauty, and a fresh coat of paint gets the barn, whose peak soars 40 feet above the lawn, ready for this weekend's spring tour, entitled East Hopkinton Discoveries, by the Hopkinton Garden Club.

Tickets for the tour, which will also allow people to visit the private gardens of Weston Nurseries' Beth and Wayne Mezitt; Joe Bruso of the Rhododendron Society and the Magnolia Society; designers Henry Schmidt and Kurt Weissbecker; and Ruth and Mike Gorman, president of the Hopkinton Garden Club and National Garden Clubs Flower Show Judge, can be purchased on June 3 and 4, the days of the tour, from 9:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the Hopkinton Town Common for $20.