destination front door
Clients asked for a gracious new look and function for the front of their house. A hedge of columnar European hornbeams (Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata'), boxwood, and hydrangeas define a welcome area at the front door.
Before garden renovation
The house prior to its architectural and garden facelift in 2010. A less gracious and confusing entrance.
Front walk mock-up
High-tech garden hose and nursery pots help the client visualize paths, planting bed shapes and dimensions, and density of boxwood.
Entrance dressed up
Lightweight stone resin olive jars (based on an original design by Gertrude Jekyll) are planted with spiky Beschorneria yuccoides and wire vine (Muhlenbeckia). Pots from Pennoyer Newman.
Boxwood walk
Walk through a sweep of fragrant boxwood to the front door of this New England house. Designed and planted with Buxus 'Green Velvet' in spring 2011.
planted squares
A triptych of lightweight squares from Campania International signals the kitchen entrance. Planted with Juniperus communis 'Gold Cone', Fuchsia 'Golden Marinka', and Haloragis erecta 'Wellington Bronze'.
New Vegetable garden design
I designed a 50' x 25' vegetable garden to function with an existing storage barn on the property. Owners wanted to get back into vegetable gardening–and have their own farm to table.
Bird's-eye view of raised beds
The vegetable garden is designed as an edible-ornamental potager with raised beds constructed from aged hemlock.
Edibles, herbs, and cut flowers co-mingle.
First season in the garden–raised beds, barrels, and clay pots planted with cardoons, cabbages, snapdragons, thymes. A pair of flamingoes took up residence!
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