GARDENS set about to create a garden centered on the Italian style architecture of the home, but using the plants and materials that thrive in Texas. What ensued is a verdant garden encompassing a series of outdoor rooms with incredible attention to detail creating a secret garden that is not completely revealed at first sight, but must be explored.
The project from start to finish only took about 18 months. Fields felt the motor court needed to be in scale with the front of the limestone house. They pulled up the antique cobble stones and reset them in sand with dichondra— a tiny, but tough evergreen ground cover— planted in between to give the driveway a feeling of age. The parking court was enlarged and a carved limestone bench added that also serves as a retaining wall. Large rectangular lead planters with clipped boxwoods were placed at the front of the house to transition the scale of the house down to the garden.
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