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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