A view looking into the parterre garden. The polished orbs ornamenting the clipped Chamaecyparis (common name: false cypress) are safety mirrors (like the kind people put at the end of driveways). In the background are clipped hydrangea standards.
A closeup view of a bluestone bed, taken in early spring, after it has been planted with different lettuces and mescluns. Bamboo poles stand ready for beans.
A Secret Garden: Fanciful Topiary in the Berkshires Gardenista:
"To everyone in town, an old Greek Revival was known mainly for being inhabited by the Eldridge sisters, a pair of spinsters who had moved back home in 1918. Not nice spinsters either—kind of mean. When Matt Larkin was a boy, their big German shepherd liked to bite him as he biked by. Then he grew up, married, bought the place, and re-imagined the garden from scratch:
It has been 18 years since Larkin and his wife Lainie Grant, who are interior designers, moved into the rundown house that sits square in the middle of four overgrown acres in Richmond, Massachusetts. "It was April when we bought it, and there was a 1909 Glenwood cast iron stove, one bathroom—which didn't work—a single light bulb hanging in the hall upstairs to light four bedrooms, and a wrecked greenhouse," says Larkin. "So, basically, it was a blank canvas."
'via Blog this'"To everyone in town, an old Greek Revival was known mainly for being inhabited by the Eldridge sisters, a pair of spinsters who had moved back home in 1918. Not nice spinsters either—kind of mean. When Matt Larkin was a boy, their big German shepherd liked to bite him as he biked by. Then he grew up, married, bought the place, and re-imagined the garden from scratch:
It has been 18 years since Larkin and his wife Lainie Grant, who are interior designers, moved into the rundown house that sits square in the middle of four overgrown acres in Richmond, Massachusetts. "It was April when we bought it, and there was a 1909 Glenwood cast iron stove, one bathroom—which didn't work—a single light bulb hanging in the hall upstairs to light four bedrooms, and a wrecked greenhouse," says Larkin. "So, basically, it was a blank canvas."
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