| This garden
was built in 1997 in southern Connecticut on a property facing Long Island
Sound. The space just outside the kitchen/dining room was cleared to reveal
a outcropping of stone ledge and the existing plants were removed or pruned
to allow for an open central area in which to place some stone ornaments
that client had brought over from Kyoto, Japan. The lantern is made of a
kind of granite prized by lantern-makers called Taiko-seki, and has a unique
four-sided design. The water fountain was made from an old steeping stone,
set up on it side and carved with a long oval basin. Water slowly overflows
the basin wetting the entire stone. The fence is made from a variety of
woods: Structural members are red cedar; planking is redwood; slender vertical
uprights are mahogany; and the weaving is cypress, redwood, and red cedar. |
