This mature Westport garden boasts layers of plantings, stone walls and statuary.
The crabapple allée makes a dramatic statement guarded by griffins.
Large windows in the midcentury home that marries barn siding with modern architecture overlook the garden.
Meticulously clipped boxwoods surround a Roman bust on the patio beside the house.
Playful Neptune statuary was used as a punch bowl for a family wedding.
A Japanese maple shades the playground surrounded by rhododendrons.
The boxwood parterre is clipped to razor sharpness to corral roses.
Robert Cohen restructured the Asian garden that had become overgrown with bamboo.
Blooming over a long period in summer, astilbe fills the beds of the terrace leading to the house.
Ivy allowed to roam gives a hint at the age of the garden.
The best view of the mature shrubs balancing the boxwood parterre is from the pool room roof deck where bamboo and other massive tropicals spend summer outside.
A sarcophagus replica of Dionysus returning to the Mediterranean sets the mood at the entry to the Asian garden.
The entrance to the Asian garden is layered with ferns at ground level, conifers above and a Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ filling the midstory.
Dominated by a standing Buddha, the stream is escorted in its journey by asters.