Splendor in the Grass
In this garden designed by Tom Stuart Smith, russet colored drifts of grasses are startling in a field studded with clipped topiary standards. There is an evocation of time here; one is reminded of the classic ruins of Rome clothed in verdure so beloved of the 19th century Romantics. It is as though a once formal garden, now “gone to seed”, has achieved a new kind of splendor.