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2009 Festival of Gardens - Garden 11
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This new home and garden for Sam and Cynthia Clarke has a "Charleston country" design, with landscaping and plants that reflect the traditional South. Facing east, the base of the elevated front porch is softened with a garden of cast iron plants, glossy dwarf pittosporum, gardenias and perennial bulbs. A Japanese boxwood in a mounded shape adds formality while seasonal annuals and prostrate rosemary grace the walkway entrance. Visible from the street, the long south side of the house features crepe myrtles to blend with neighboring trees across Westminster Drive. Facing west, a boxwood lined circular slate patio defines the walled courtyard. The delight of the back garden is a bronze sculpture sitting in a fountain pool. The figure, "Turtle Child," is reminiscent of American sculptor Edith Barretto Stevens Parson's well-known piece "Frog Baby." Note how the Italian cypress and sweet bay magnolias screen neighboring roof lines and add privacy. The Charleston country theme is completed with a wrought iron arched trellis and garden gate.
