Entrance Garden

These art loving clients requested a koi pond, a place for sculpture and a welcoming arrival space designed in the style of traditional European landscapes. A realigned driveway flanked by clouds of boxwoods, hollies, pines and cedars gently meanders to a new parking area near the front door. The parking is separated from the entrance garden by a native stone retaining wall and broad granite steps.

Ascending the steps toward the front entrance, the visitor enters a garden of quiet formality which extends out into the landscape from this gracious 1920's house. On axis with the steps, a long narrow koi pond is flanked by a garden of holly hedges, rows of hornbeams, boxwood, winterberry and a new oak tree. Moving away from the house, the formal gardens yield to a naturalistic meadow and reclaimed woodland which link an existing tupelo grove to new native evergreen plantings at the property's edge.