Garden Exploration: A Grand and Romantic Garden in New England

Photography by Justine Hand

Come with us on a tour of interior designer Abby Yozell's grand Massachusetts garden, inspired by classical French design. Architect Claudia Noury-Ello, landscape architect firm Richard Burck Associates, Inc., and landscape construction team Robert Hanss, Inc. worked together to bring to live a vision of old-world grandeur.

Its edges flush with the ground, the pool blends seamlessly into the lawn.

The two terraces created a much-needed transitional space between the indoors and out.

Yozell chose relaxed pieces that reflect the casual elegance of the garden.

Plantings and garden accents such as agapanthus and urns maintain the Mediterranean feel.

The house, terraces, and pools are laid out in complementary planes, which are then softened by lush and wild plantings.

Old stones interplanted with mosses and creeping ground covers make the newly constructed wall seem age-old.

Strategically placed throughout the terraces, container gardens with exotic plantings such as succulents and cycads enhance the Mediterranean flavor.

Framing a hand-hewn stone path, loosely shorn yews, as well as untamed vines and self-sewn plantings, conjure an atmosphere of old-world charm.

Along the steps, artemisia and lavender echo the Mediterranean architecture.

At one end of the pool, the original reflecting pool and fountain was restored and enhanced with an old limestone trough.

Below the lawn and pool a winding path leads to a man-made pond that was created in the 1920s.

A paired of lichen-covered deck chairs provides a quiet spot to rest by the pond.

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