Peachy the Magazine October/November 2013 | Page 82

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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

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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
generate conversation about the redesign. 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