The outdoor dining alcove beside the pool.
Crisp boxwood edging snakes toward the garden’s entry.
The Sears Roebuck kit house was given new windows and shutters, “and we ripped off the asphalt siding.”
The stone steps from the guest barn into the garden are flanked by a couple of French antique stone bouquets from the Elemental Garden.
Low-growing Coral Drift roses line the lower wall of the garden.
Mark Drendel deadheads a rose.
A front porch swing and rocking chairs were a must-have; urns are from RH.
A teak table and chairs from Jewels of Java and umbrella from Herrick Hardware fit perfectly in a dining alcove beside the pool.
Iceberg roses grow in front of the white guest barn. David Austin’s introduction, Graham Thomas, has a tea rose fragrance on an ultra-hardy plant.
Gertrude Jekyll rose emits the quintessential old rose fragrance.
Pink Gertrude Jekyll roses
A trio of kousa dogwoods and a candy-like assortment of roses serves as bedding beside the guest barn.
Geranium Rozanne weaves through the woodland garden.
Drendel with Katie the Border Terrier.
Fond of anything clipped, Drendel created a series of sheared shrubs scaling the hill.
Drendel and Conway shipped a copper cheese pot home from a vacation in Provence to create a fountain.
Boxwood accented by containers of Hydrangea Nikko Blue in containers from Pergola create a safety edge along the mezzanine terrace.