Garden Dialogues 2014: Connecticut

On Saturday, June 14th, get exclusive access to private gardens and landscapes in Connecticut and hear directly from the designers and their clients about their collaborative process.

How do clients and designers work together? What makes for a great, enduring collaboration? Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to visit some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished designers currently in practice.

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                                                                                                    Photo courtesy Susan Cohen

Saturday, June 14th, 10:30 to 11:30am | Greenwich

Greenwich Residence
Susan Cohen, Susan Cohen Landscape Architect

This recently built waterfront home in Bellehaven, positioned to save an old magnolia tree, is reached by a sinuous drive that rises to offer refreshing views of Long Island Sound. Once a rugged hillside, this site has been redesigned to be in quiet harmony with the setting, and multiple landscape walls of native stone echo the stone facade of the house. Features include a crabapple orchard, a cutting garden, and a small terrace overlooking the Sound. Rough-hewn stone steps and a lawn path lead down, through sweeps of perennial grasses, to the gazebo at the water’s edge.  more photos

                                                                                          Photo by Neil Landino

Saturday, June 14th, 2:00 to 3:00pm | New Canaan

Garden within a Garden
Janice Parker, Janice Parker Landscape Architects

Inspired by a sunny memory of an Italian vineyard, this five-acre landscape successfully integrates an entertaining terrace, vegetable garden, tennis court and prominent pool. The vegetable gardens and fruiting trees were laid out on a strong grid intertwined with masonry. Each space is bordered with broad fences softened by rose bushes and perennials to complete this Bella Italia landscape. more photos