After moving to Blenheim in September 1962, William and Barbara Scott transformed former farm fields into flower beds, vegetable gardens, berry patches, and a fruit orchard with cherry, crab apple, nectarine, and peach trees. Their homegrown produce included tomatoes, squash, beets, and lettuce, and their gardening also yielded abundant flowers such as dahlias, tulips, roses, lilacs, lilies, peonies, irises, and especially daffodils. Barbara Scott earned recognition for her gardening, winning two blue ribbons at a Fairfax Garden Club show in 1968 and, in April 1982, receiving the Garden Club of Virginia's Jacqueline Byrd Shank Memorial Trophy for her miniature "Calcicola" daffodil. An earlier generation had installed a boxwood garden with a sundial in the 1940s as part of Colonial Revival landscape design, and the Scotts later added roses and paths covered with buckwheat hulls. After the boxwood garden became overgrown and diseased, it was replaced in its original form during the current restoration.