Magnolias line the entrance to the King’s Garden from the vegetable gardens. It is unusual for magnolias to survive this far north; however, they are protected by other rows of trees, and the moderating influence of Lake Champlain and the Fort.
When William Ferris Pell planned the landscape around the Pavilion in the 1820s, he planted a wide variety of trees, including Black Locusts on the front lawn facing the lake. The locusts provide a comfortable dappled shade that would have been enjoyable for guests at the Pavilion Hotel during the afternoons.
Allees
Lining the Fort roadways are a series of allees that provide brilliant color in the Fall. Maple trees line the drive from the front gate to the Fort. Green ash trees provide a brilliant yellow tunnel of color in the Fall from the Fort down to the King’s Garden. The most dramatic allee is a series of
italianate poplars which lead from the gate of the King’s Garden to the Fort.
Forests
The mixed hardwood forests around the Fort and on adjacent properties contain such varied trees as shagbark hickory, witch hazel, American hornbeam, hop hornbeam, eastern white pine, oak, maple, hemlock, arbor vitae, green ash, cherry, honey locust, hawthorn, and silver maple, to name a few.
