A garden in Williamsburg, VA

My client requested a front garden design in keeping with typical Williamsburg, Virginia, gardening traditions: the garden, while open to the street, was to be inviting yet provide some privacy, especially to neighbors on either side. The owner wanted to grow roses, clematis, and perennials with long flowering periods but the existing soil was pure sand.

To provide visual separation from the road and to emphasize privacy, fencing and boxwood hedge screen plantings are kept low to maximize the friendly atmosphere yet define the garden. Planted in raised beds so top soil could be added to existing sand, are long flowering perennials, mainly catnip and Russian sage as well as roses, all edged in low boxwood borders and gravel walkways. On both sides, arborvitae hedges block views to a matching pair of arbors with benches. The color scheme in this formal design is simply lavender, purple, silver gray, green and white. Arbors are covered with clematis and climbing roses.

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