GARDENS
ISSUE: October November 2013
FEATURED CITY: Dallas
DESIGN BY Paul Fields, Lambert's Landscape Company
WRITTEN BY Blair Farris
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Ira Montgomery
La Dolce Vita
On a tree lined street in Highland Park, quiet elegance is found behind the layers
of clipped hedges of Nellie R. Stevens holly and Little Gem magnolias. The quiet
is punctuated by grandchildren’s laughter and joy, spouting fountains and lush
annuals and perennials. But the garden wasn’t always this way. In 1999, when
Marcy and Steve Sands were well into the third design of the garden, they felt it
just wasn’t right. After several recommendations they called landscape architect
Paul Fields, Director of Design for Lambert’s Landscape Company in Dallas, TX.
Their first meeting began with a lively discussion and then a rough sketch to gener-
ate conversation about the re-design. At first sight, Fields realized the English garden
didn’t fit because it was not cohesive with the Italian Renaissance style of the home.
The Sands loved the new ideas Fields offered from the start and the team set about
to create a garden centered on the Italian style architecture of the home, but using
the plants and materials that thrive in Texas. What ensued is a verdant garden
encompassing a series of outdoor rooms with incredible attention to detail creating
a secret garden that is not completely revealed at first sight, but must be explored.
Read more in the October November 2013 issue
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