Boogaerts' own garden is listed for the third year as one of "America's Best Private Gardens" in the 2001 Garden Conservancy Open Days Directory:

This tiny, steep site overlooking the Mianus River is an American Hybrid of the Italialn Renaissance with British Arts and Crafts stonework planted in the "natural style" of William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll with creepers, ramblers, roses, herbaceous plants, and bulbs. The garden is a sequence of terraces carved into the wooded hillside. The cross-axial patterns repeat, in miniature, the disciplined hillside garedns of Tuscany and the Veneto. The fern grotto and loggia are New England rustic interpretations of Edwin Lutyen's Hestercombe. The boxwood parterre leads to the perennial garden, the grape arbor, the potager, and the espaliered apple trees. At the top of the ramp and trail is a stone belvedere for enjoyment of the view.