Garden Meets Gilded Age.

Floral Arrangement by Maple Field Floral in Peekskill, NY.

Excuse me while I go back to the Gilded Age for a few.

Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York, each April hosts dozens of florists from all over the world, to design each room throughout the Gilded Era mansion. The property was positively flanked in floral garb, with artifacts and decor free-flowing throughout the Gothic revival mansion playing model to the creative minds of 20 established floral designers.

My name may not be Ms. Brook, but I took a step back in to a Gilded Age spring in this 19th century summer estate owned by prominent New York family the Goulds. Fun facts: In 1880, Jay Gould could sail his yacht down the Hudson River to the island of Manhattan, while Helen Gould had her butlers’ uniforms flown in from France.

The opulence.