The pool-house roof peeks over the top of a cacophonous blend of colors, textures and plant forms that fill Jane Ellsworth’s box-bound flower beds.
The boxwood quarter parterre offered a great opportunity for experimentation. The boxwood and 1940s-era fountain stayed, and Ellsworth introduced peonies, roses and iris from her old gard
The design at the front of the house is understated green-on-green, guarded by three massive beech trees in a sea of pachysandra.
Ellsworth worked with Westchester Fences to have the “B”—her married initial—included in the arbor, which is covered in New Dawn roses and clematis.
A true Anglophile, designer Jane Ellsworth favors classic, British country style, indoors and out.
The billowing blue hydrangeas are a reference to the couple’s other home on Nantucket.
In the front courtyard, moss-covered brick walls that date back to 1939 have an intricate lattice pattern. Garden pots purchased from Barbara Israel flank the doors to the pool house, which dates to the 1950s.
The grass is left unmowed in the apple orchard and has the feel of a meadow just beyond the garden gate.
Echinope retro, or globe thistle, is one of the designer’s favorite perennials.
