Ward Jewell, AIA was asked to design a comfortable one-story stone and wood pool house that was "barn-like" in keeping with the owner’s gentleman farmer concept. Thus, Mr. Jewell was inspired to create an elegant New England Stone Farm House designed to provide an exceptional environment for them to live, entertain, cook and swim in the large reflection lap pool. Mr. Jewell envisioned a dramatic vaulted great room with hand selected 200 year old reclaimed wood beams and 10 foot tall pocketing French doors that would connect the house to a pool, deck areas, loggia and lush garden spaces, thus bringing the outdoors in. A large cupola “lantern clerestory” in the main vaulted ceiling casts a natural warm light over the graceful room below. The rustic walk-in stone fireplace provides a central focal point for the inviting living room lounge. Important to the functionality of the pool house are a chef’s working farm kitchen with open cabinetry, free-standing stove and a soapstone topped central island with bar height seating. Grey washed barn doors glide open to reveal a vaulted and beamed quilting room with full bath and a vaulted and beamed library/guest room with full bath that bookend the main space. The private garden expanded and evolved over time. After purchasing two adjacent lots, the owners decided to redesign the garden and unify it by eliminating the tennis court, relocating the pool and building an inspired "barn". The concept behind the garden’s new design came from Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello with its wandering paths, orchards, and experimental vegetable garden. As a result this small organic farm, was born. Today the farm produces more than fifty varieties of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers; many of which are rare and hard to find locally. The farm also grows a wide variety of fruits including plums, pluots, nectarines, apricots, apples, figs, peaches, guavas, avocados (Haas, Fuerte and Reed), olives, pomegranates, persimmons, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and ten different types of citrus. The remaining areas consist of drought-tolerant sweeps of rosemary, lavender, rockrose, and sage all of which attract butterflies and dueling hummingbirds. Photo Credit: Laura Hull Photography. Interior Design: Jeffrey Hitchcock. Landscape Design: Laurie Lewis Design. General Contractor: Martin Perry Premier General Contractors

Fruit orchard
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Patrick & Topaze McCaffery - Taproot Garden Design "Plenty of bench seating for entertaining small parties, or for stargazing during the warm summer nights. Within the raised concrete beds are a Meyer Lemon tree and a Bay Laurel tree. Alongside the fence are fruiting trees like Pineapple Guava, Apple, Donut Peach, Pear, and a vegetable bed. The non-fruiting trees are Dodonaea viscosa purpurea."

Patrick & Topaze McCaffery - Taproot Garden Design & Fine Gardening "A bird's eye view of the garden - The low water perennials bring in the pollinators that help with production of food. This back yard produces oranges, lemons, apricots, plums, peaches, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, melons, squash, herbs, and many more edibles."

This lovely low-mounded rose delivers clouds of blooms that emerge peach and transform to cream. 1-3' (0.3-0.9 m) tall and wide. Full sun. USDA Zones 3-9

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25 years developing this site has put Gil Schieber on the horticultural registries of important garden designers
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Beautifully designed by Giannetti Architects and skillfully built by Morrow & Morrow Construction in 2006 in the highly coveted guard gated Brentwood Circle. The stunning estate features 5bd/5.5ba including maid quarters, library, and detached pool house. Designer finishes throughout with wide plank hardwood floors, crown molding, and interior service elevator. Sumptuous master suite and bath with large terrace overlooking pool and yard. 3 additional bedroom suites + dance studio/4th bedroom upstairs. Spacious family room with custom built-ins, eat-in cook's kitchen with top of the line appliances and butler's pantry & nook. Formal living room w/ french limestone fireplace designed by Steve Gianetti and custom made in France, dining room, and office/library with floor-to ceiling mahogany built-in bookshelves & rolling ladder. Serene backyard with swimmer's pool & spa. Private and secure yet only minutes to the Village. This is a rare offering. Photos by PostRain

The Edible Garden - Ripe plums ready for picking Photo: Lore Patterson
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Juicy summer freestone peaches just waiting to be picked
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Photo by Kirsten Gentry and Terra Jenkins for Van Zelst, Inc.
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Photo by Kirsten Gentry and Terra Jenkins for Van Zelst, Inc.
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Long Cutting garden near peach and pomegranate trees and artichokes
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