GARDENS
A crucial part to the design was finding the carved Vichenza stone statues that anchor the four corners of the garden . The female statues , draped in the climbing rose Buff Beauty , represent the four seasons holding wheat sheaves , spring roses , grape clusters , and acorns . The statues sit atop exquisitely crafted low limestone walls with clipped boxwood hedges , azaleas , and roses softening the edges .
“ The boxwood hedges are the thread that holds the garden together . It reinforces the structure of the garden . The allée of crape myrtles , and the pleached magnolia trees provide structure as well as create walls and a ceiling that give the garden rooms a human scale ,” says Fields .
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