Gardens
A Journey Across Time
Contemplation, beauty, and refuge are all words we associate with our gardens. But we also fret about our gardens and endlessly toil with planting, pruning, and redesigning to achieve a seamless extension of our living space from indoors to outdoors. This combination of work and enjoyment defines our relationship with the gardens surrounding our home.
The bones of our garden were laid down long before we arrived, with retaining walls that terrace the landscape into three layers. The upper gardens near the house are separated from a lower slope by a fifteen-foot-wide arbor-covered walkway that wraps around the property. A total of six fourteen feet high, powdered steel arbors provide a roof to the walkaway by supporting roses, wisteria, honeysuckle, and clematis. The flagstone walkway below is edged on either side by rhododendrons, azaleas, arborvitae, hydrangeas, and more.
When we moved into the home eight years ago, the house was surrounded primarily by lawns edged with thin strips of flower and shrub beds…
