One top spring sight is the Trillium Garden; Mt. Cuba’s has about 40 types of these beauties. Photo by Linda Cabasin

This allée has legacy non-native lilacs (favored by Mrs. Copeland), but the lavender flowers are native moss phlox. Photo by Linda Cabasin

A view from the Woodland Glade path takes in gentle hills and Mt. Cuba’s new greenhouse. Photo by Linda Cabasin

The West Slope Path has spring-flowering native plants such as the yellow bellwort in this photo’s lower left. Photo by Linda Cabasin

The garden’s Organizing Nature interpretive panel highlights Mason’s orderly design. Photo by Linda Cabasin

This second-floor bedroom was desirable because it had a fireplace (unlike some others) and faced away from the noisy, sometimes smelly kitchen yard. Photo by Linda Cabasin

Interior of the kitchen, one of several reconstructed buildings revealing everyday life at Gunston Hall. Photo by Linda Cabasin

Mason’s small original writing desk, in his study. Photo by Linda Cabasin