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Garden Tour Tudor
Essex Farm
Smuggler's Notch
Patio and fire pit garden
Lily's Front Entry
Hidden Patio with Steel-Ribboned Arbor
Bayside Garden
Jack's Place
Redstone
Colonial Revisioned
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Ray's Mushroom: We named it after our excavator operator. The boulders on this property were so enormous that we needed machinery well beyond our usual Cat. We called on Ray, who has sometimes trucked his excavator down to Pennsylvania to do work on the PA Turnpike. He was so patient in pulling...
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Ray's Mushroom Front view.
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Ray's Mushroom, rear view: Just as Ray was delicately positioning the mushroom top, the back side split and broke off. What to do? We decided to leave it. Later, I added some shiny red fungus jewelry.
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"Heart in My Throat": Bejeweled standing stones at back entrance of Ski House
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I love the ever-changing play of shadows and often think about this when placing boulders.
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Bird Bath (and Cat Bowl) shaped of natural stone by local stone artisan Chris Cleary.
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Star-Watching Stone Seat; I love stone serendipity. The backrest stone here is actually a mammoth boulder mostly buried with only the tip showing. When we turned the boulder over and I saw the natural indentation, I immediately sat down in the dirt, leaned against it and tried it out. It's...
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Stone cairn balanced by gravity alone. It's been up for about year through fall rainstorms and a Vermont winter.
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Vermont version of Spanish Moss hanging from a storybook white pine: This is the annual Dichondra "Silver Fallls." It grows to hang about 7 feet by summer's end. I love its silvery accent in the evenings. The hanging bowls are rigged on pulleys for spring planting. It's a great conceit for bringing...
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Stone benches designed and built by Susan. The cost of a traditional dry-laid seating wall was prohibitive. This is what happened instead. It suits the fun, casual groove of the fire pit enclosure.
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Lily's Front Entry: detail of repurposed bricks and cobbles laid in a natural bluestone landing outside gate entry.
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Bayside garden on Lake Champlain.
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The client didn't know what to do with some leftover stumps that were an eyesore. We sliced them up and floated them here as "bubble" stepping stones.
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The client didn't know what to do with some leftover stumps that were an eyesore. We sliced them up and floated them here as "bubble" stepping stones.
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Pop-up Garden in the Three Sisters neighborhood, immediately after planting.
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