A newly built barn is surrounded by a cottage garden combining a tuteur of mandevilla with hydrangeas, buddleia, sedum, rudbeckia and sprawling melons.
A purple martin house serves as the centerpiece for a vegetable/ cutting garden created to be seen from above.
Orb-shaped boxwood bedded in creeping Jenny lines the pathway up to the pool pergola planted with drifts of echinacea. The poolside umbrella is from Frontgate.
The vegetable/cutting garden has granite beds spilling with harvest for both the table and flower arrangements, including marigolds, cosmos and echinacea.
Gardeners Tara Kottman and Sierra Simpson found rarities for bouquets such as this Cosmos ‘Double Click Bicolor Pink’.
Fitted with inviting RH furniture and paved in granite, the terrace provides one of several outdoor gathering opportunities overlooking the property below.
The boathouse was given a succinct seating terrace to admire the lake view.
Redhaven peaches are ripe for harvest.
Backed by a stand of Green Giant arborvitae, an elevated bluestone reading terrace is swaddled in Hydrangea ‘Little Quick Fire,’ Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ and lilacs.
Even the pool fence is camouflaged in native veronicastrum looking out toward viburnums and Joe-Pye weed.