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This historic landscape consists of a series of garden rooms, with places to sit, to wander, to be alone, to entertain and to play. The front parterre garden is original to the 1850 Greek Revival addition to the original house built circa 1795. Another parterre garden is in the rear of the house. A semi-circle of ‘Natchez’ crape myrtle trees is the focal point for lawns and planting beds containing peonies, hydrangeas, azaleas and camellias. A large island bed is filled with roses, perennials and herbs. Some noteworthy roses are ‘Hot Cocoa’, ‘Playboy’, ‘Gemini’, Belinda’s Dream’ and ‘Barbara Bush’. They’re accented by a mix of Shasta daisies, chrysanthemums and salvia. Rosemary, thyme, lemon verbena, oregano, cilantro and dill are interspersed. On the north side of the house is a serpentine green area bordered by beds containing gingers, ferns, vitex trees, viburnum, althea and hydrangeas. A fountain made from an authentic sugar kettle is surrounded by fatsia and semi-tropical plants.
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