SNEAK PEEK: Planting Fields one-of-a-kind Piet Oudolf garden, designer behind New York City High Line

It feels like I am walking through a living painting. Here's why people say this is the most beautiful acre on Long Island. It's a garden that rewards visits time and time again. The Pete Aldoff Garden at Planting Fields in Oyster Bay promises to be unlike anything else on Long Island. Aldoff's the designer behind the High Line in Manhattan, but here you'll find a towering 350-year-old oak tree always in view and visiting pollinators well before the opening to the public this weekend. It has a really strong backbone of native species, and certainly by number, it is a majority native species. This isn't an ordinary flower garden because here, the graveyard of the skeletons those flowers leave behind are also part of the design. It's not that he's trying to imitate nature, it's that he wants to offer the feelings you get in nature and then just sort of turn up the volume on that, right? The idea is to make this garden look effortless, but every square inch has been meticulously planned. The garden is intersected by the historic Rose Arbor. Reporting in Nassau County, Alex Calamia, News 12.