Celebrating the outdoors

Mark Mariani has always been impressed with the traditional European garden centers that blend trees and shrubs with a dining and shopping experience. So when Winkler’s Nursery in Armonk was looking to sell seven years ago, Mariani knew just what to do. The result is Mariani Gardens, which has for the last four years been named one of the top 25 garden centers in the United States by Garden Center Magazine. Photographs by Bob Rozycki

Sam Walsh, vice president of Mariani Gardens in Armonk