GARDENER'S NOTEBOOK
Panorama and Intimacy
With a View of the Harbor
By Jani Gardner
”Anxious to make a dramatic statement, when looking down the unfulfilled, rolling grassy area, reaching toward the water from their Edgartown home,” an enthusiastic client teamed up with Donaroma’s Cammie Naylor, who brought life to that dream with a mono-chromatic palette of pure white. That magic statement arrived in 40 varieties of white annuals and perennials along the borders: delphinium, phlox, echinacea, lilium, salvia and dahlia, plus varietal white trees, shrubs and Annabelle hydrangea. Another design challenge was to create intimacy, yet provide a spacious, wide open viewing channel to the harbor. The solution was to place the low privet hedge with a wide opening at the start of the garden border, punctuating the garden space, to create a “garden room” to enter, complete with a hedge to shield dining areas. “So that room did not appear to float mid-lawn, we created a green backdrop line of large boxwood shrubs in round containers, with cascading petunias at the borders,” says Cammie. This unique panoramic garden will consistently bloom from spring to fall. Cammie confides it will continue this upcoming season.