Peachy the Magazine October/November 2013 | Page 91

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
allee 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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