Welcome, Spring!
As newlyweds, the Coopers moved
onto a parcel of her family’s land
located in the heart of Eastover. Over
the years, they have acquired more of
their family’s surrounding land and
now the home and garden covers more
than six acres. Sally spent the first few
years cleaning and mulching to prepare for more beautiful and robust
gardens. She worked with designers
on small projects, but for the most part,
it has been her labor of love—to carefully and expertly design garden spaces.
We spent a Sunday afternoon exploring her garden. When asked what her
favorite flower is, she remarked, “Whatever is in bloom at the time.” There are,
indeed, plants that are continously in
bloom. The helleborus orientalis are en
masse and the daffodils and scilla were
starting to peek out. There are peonies,
phlox, bloodroot, iris, astilbe and alpine
columbine. Sally has cultivated hardwood trees and ornamental trees such
as flowering peach, flowering almond,
yoshino cherries, crape myrtles and
styrex. She is extremely proud of the
Davey Poplars from Chapel Hill that
were given to her as seedlings when
she was on the board of the North
Carolina Botanical Gardens. The thousands of bulbs are from Brent and
Becky’s Bulbs in Gloucester, Va. Other
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