Garden gates

A white garden gate with a hanging iron lamp provides a stylish and well-lit entrance

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This garden gate, by McHale Landscape Design Inc., leads to a Japanese tea garden-style retreat framed by tree trunk columns milled and dowelled onsite

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Climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris) partially covers its facade. "This great vine has year-round interest and is extremely versatile," Dear says. "It becomes self-supporting by the use of tiny holdfasts, which attach to the surface of walls, trees, arbors and pergolas,

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My simple arbor is planted not with a vine but with a weeping bald cypress (Taxodium distichum ‘Cascade Falls’, USDA zones 4 to 9). Many of its pliable, draping branches are intentionally left intact so the visitor has to physically part them to enter the space.

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This massive stone arch stands at the entrance to the Sun/Moon Garden.

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