A Designer's Dream Garden (continued)
With the help of stacked stone, cascading ivy and clipped boxwood, designer Jamie Drake’s East Hampton hideaway, which began as a builder’s spec house, sheds its come-lately look
Elsewhere, his mix of annuals and perennials prolongs the garden season. In the borders behind the house, spring begins with massed bulbs (crocuses, daffodils, hyacinths, tulips), while wisteria hangs heavily on the folly. ‘Nikko Blue’ hydrangeas and assorted roses bloom in summer, along with candy-sweet heliotrope and New Guinea impatiens, and then fall brings peegee hydrangeas, flowering sedums and red-flushed crab apple trees.
Drake loves the feeling of being “hidden away in the woods,” but he’s big on garden parties too. They often start with cocktails and dinner on the terrace. Later, guests might wander, perhaps winding up at the bottom of the hill, in the small-scale, open-air palace that feels as rich and timeless as summer itself.
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