This is the250 year old farmstead, on 2 1/2 acres, I had bought as a handy-man's special.  I've since done  the restoration, moved to another house on the original property and have finally been able to get down to gardening again.  The house and barns are on the National Trust for Historic Preservation list, and according to a friend of mine, there is a resident ghost, although we've not met.  As you can see, it gets pretty cold up here in the hills of the north shore of Long Island.  Our usual cold temperature is around 5 degrees F on the Island although we go as low as -6 here in the hills.  Unfortunately, we usually don't have snow when this happens, and it can be 60 degrees only a few days before.  But that's usual for this area.  Things have to be pretty hardy to survive. I'll post pictures of the new house and garden as it progresses.