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Layered past Shelter me This old house A Lewis Mountain home takes shape in phases

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An historic home nabs new-century changes

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Past in present Built in the 1850s, a country farm house for a new generation

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LAUREL RIDGE - English country manor home designed by renowned architect and built by highly respected contractor. Located amongst large, protected estates in the North Garden area of Albemarle County just 20 minutes from town. Property also has a swimming pool, storage barn, kennel & workshop. House is in very good condition & the kitchen was recently redone. Completely private setting. Additional land available. MLS# 558793 • 1,600,000

SCOTTSVILLE FARM -A beautiful, medium-sized horse farm or retreat 14 miles from town. The turn-of-the-century farmhouse is well-sited in the center of 77 acres of fenced pasture and fields, with a beautiful stable, large pond and trails. The farm offers privacy and views and is adjacent to over 1500 acres of protected farmland. A 6-stall center aisle barn with power, hot and cold water, bathroom, tack room, wash stall and shavings storage is positioned near the large outdoor ring. MLS# 558491 • $1,250,000

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RUTH HOLLOW FIRE TRAIL - This 193-acre ridge top property has dramatic views – to the east (overlooking Madison) and west (into the Rapidan River valley and across to Flattop Ridge and surrounding mountains), along with forest, dense woods and open flat pasture. Privacy, a spring and several possible home sites. Hunting, hiking and other recreational opportunities. Access is by 4-wheel drive vehicle. MLS# 549494 • $869,000

HELL'S BEND - 332 acres of rolling pasture and hardwoods with miles of trails and numerous streams and springs. Several excellent buildings sites, one with long views of the mountains. Abundant wildlife and complete privacy less than 40 minutes to Charlottesville. Newer, well built cabin on property could serve as a weekend home or guest house. Most of the property protected by conservation easement except for 25 acres that the cabin sits on. Exceptional value. MLS # 556132 • $895,000

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CUTALONG FARM -Spectacular land located only 15 min. from Town of Orange w/frontage on the N. Anna River, great soil types, ideal for farming operation, livestock or country estate. Very private with numerous great building sites. Parcel is mostly open w/fabulous interior views. Protected by a V.O.F. Conservation Easement. MLS # 552308 • $935,000 Justin H. Wiley – 434.981.5528

SNOW MOUNTAIN ROAD - Breathtaking views looking across the rolling hills of Virginia’s Piedmont. Build your own retreat on any of the numerous home sites that take advantage of the views, natural beauty and privacy of this mostly wooded property. An easy drive or hike to a National Park trailhead. Water and hardwoods make this an excellent hunting property for deer turkey etc. Well, platted drain field in place. 2 hours from DC, approximately 45 minutes from Charlottesville. MLS# 526953 • $349,000

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Beyond green Look through the front door at the home of this month’s featured landscape, framed by a cascade of flora, and you can see straight to the distant mountains. Read more on page 47. CATRIONA TUDOR ERLER

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A Lewis Mountain home evolves in phases, when to restore or replace, a new Bundoran show home and more.

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A 300-acre James River estate gets a second chance.

Finishing Touch 61 Not so mellow, eh, yellow?

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Named for the family who ran a nearby grist mill in the 1800s, the 25-acre Wilhoit Mill Farm near Earlysville is a pastiche of eras. Luckily for the owners, it didn’t require extensive renovation, thanks to intact original details that tie everything together, blending then and now.

While the homeowner of this month’s featured landscape knew she and her husband had found something special when they bought the property in 2014, it wasn’t framing the mountain view as it should. So they changed the garden’s approach.

Down in the valley

Growing beautiful

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April 13 Kirk Brown, president of the Garden Writers Association, leads this 90-minute lecture, “No Watering Required: Water-wise Garden Design.” The last of a four-part series presented in cooperation with the Virginia Cooperative Extension, the lecture will cover a breadth of current landscape design topics: rain gardens, rain barrels, storm water bioretention, green roofs, dry stream beds, water features and new plant introductions—natives and species hybrids. $8, 7-8:30pm. Albemarle County Office Building Room A, 1600 Fifth St. Ext. piedmontmastergardeners.org

Historic Garden Week Sunday, April 23, to Monday, April 24 Get an up-close look at some of the best landscapes in the Charlottesville and Albemarle area. On Sunday, visit five properties, including a whimsical, twoacre, woodland garden, an English country manor home, an estate originating in 1749, an American country home built in 2007 and a renovated neo-Georgian manor home. On Monday, get a glimpse of UVA’s Pavilion gardens and Carr’s Hill. See page 47 for a sneak peek at one of the gardens you could visit on the tour. $50 per person ($45 in advance). vagardenweek.org

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Architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara will lead a talk as part of Monticello’s Founder’s Day offerings.

ous floral display—from early-spring bulbs to late-spring annuals, biennials and perennials. $18, 2-3:30pm. David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. monticello.org

FOR YOUR BOOKSHELF

On the farm The Gentleman’s Farm by Debra A. McClane and Laurie Ossman

Lessons and Techniques from Jefferson’s Gardens April 25 Gain inspiration for your own kitchen garden during this Q&A walk with Monticello vegetable gardener Pat Brodowski. Learn techniques and examine heirloom varieties you could grow at home. $18, 10-11:30am. David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. monticello.org

Gardener’s Eye View of the Flowers April 25 Monticello’s flower gardener Debbie Donley leads this in-depth tour of Jefferson’s flower gardens, discussing sequential planting plans for a continu-

Hey, y’all! Southern hospitality queen Julia Reed will be at Monticello Monday, April 24, to divulge her secrets of Southern entertaining. $65, 6:30-8:30pm. 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. Zack Worrell monticello.org

Recently published by Rizzoli, The Gentleman’s Farm compiles the luscious histories of 26 Virginia landscapes—from Castle Hill and Edgemont to Barboursville and, of course, Monticello. “We present the classical ideal of the gentleman farmer (which includes gentlewoman farmers, as well) and follow it through our colonial beginnings to our organic farm present,” says Debra A. McClane. With co-author and fellow UVA alumna Laurie Ossman, McClane visited each of the farms and pinpointed the history, architecture and country lifestyle evident at each that sets Virginia landscapes apart. Visit thegentlemansfarm.net for more information and upcoming events with the authors.

IN THE NEWS

Happy birthday, Mr. President! As part of its April 13 Founder’s Day celebration, honoring Thomas Jefferson’s

birthday, Monticello will host a talk by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, this year’s recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Farrell and McNamara are co-directors of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, a firm that garnered, among other honors, the World Building of the Year Award 2008 for the Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan. The prize recognizes the world’s best architects. Recently, they earned the 2016 Royal Institute of British Architects International Prize for the University of Technology and Engineering campus in Peru, named the world’s best new building. “As founding partners of Grafton Architects, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have built an international award-winning practice that has made substantial contributions to culture and education and have embodied their values in profound works of architecture,” said UVA School of Architecture dean Ila Berman in a press release. “Their investment in reimagining a contemporary version of Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village has been exemplified in projects such as the University of Technology and Engineering campus in Lima, Peru, and the Universita Luigi Bocconi—each outstanding examples of the capacity of architecture to contribute to the making of public space in service to society as a whole.” ABODE 9

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Through three phases, the homeowners of this Lewis Mountain property have teased out a more modern version of its original modernism.

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eff Dreyfus and Bob Headrick have always loved their house. It is a special place—very progressive when it was built in 1933, predating by decades most other local examples of modern architecture. Its International Style design is bold and crisp, built with geometric planes of white accented by black. Yet by 2002, when the couple purchased it, it was in some ways like many old houses: It suffered from dated finishes and didn’t quite suit a contemporary lifestyle. Headrick’s and Dreyfus’ relationship with the house, then, has always had change at its core; in fact, their first renovation began the day after they bought it. Teasing out the potential of this structure, found in the Lewis Mountain neighborhood, has been a long process, occurring in three phases to date (with a fourth still to come). Photos show what the couple has achieved: They’ve expanded and updated with the utmost respect for the house’s inherent qualities, creating in effect a more modern version of its original modernism. “It looks seamless,” says Dreyfus, principal of Bushman Dreyfus Architects. “To me the fun

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challenge is to make it all seem like it belongs together.” What’s also remarkable is that phases I (2002) and II (2004) included adding some elements that would actually disappear in phase III. “The incremental approach is best,” says Dreyfus. “You don’t know how you’re going to live in a house when you buy it.” Living with the first renovations for more than a decade allowed him and Headrick to more fully understand what they wanted and ultimately made for a better phase III.

To give one small example, phase II included the addition of multiple large closets in what was then the master bedroom. While these were very effective at hiding belongings behind minimal white doors (the two like to maintain a spare dwelling), the closets turned out to have a downside. “It’s not easy living with closet doors on everything,” says Dreyfus. Far more practical, they realized, would be a walk-in closet in which all items were within reach at the same time. When, in phase III, a bigger and better master bedroom came along, the better closet came too. Not only that, but the necessity of working with property setback lines engendered an angled exterior wall on this new bedroom addition— which allowed a second entrance to what’s ultimately a walk-through closet. Doorless, but with contents hidden from view, the space is a model of convenience. Meanwhile, some of those phase II closets came out, to be replaced by a small workspace with a built-in desk. The former bedroom turned into a sitting room, a more intimate counterpoint to the large original living room. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

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In phase III, a row of built-in closets in the master bedroom (below, in a photo from phase II) were removed to make way for a sitting room. The master bedroom, then, moved to another area of the house, maximizing the first-floor public space down the hall from the living area.

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“It’s nice to have the lower ceiling” in the new room, says Dreyfus. “They are two spaces, for larger and smaller groups.” A modern fireplace and a view of the pool and landscape make this new seating area deliciously inviting. And it’s a better companion to the adjacent dining area than the bedroom had been. Notwithstanding a drop-down privacy screen, the bed had still essentially been in a space contiguous with the dinner party spot, which, says the couple, never felt quite right. Outside the sitting room, a new porch overlooks the pool deck. Headrick and Dreyfus had intended to screen it—they even had the screens on hand—but realized once it was framed that it would feel “too claustrophobic” if enclosed. “While I don’t relish living in a renovation,” says Dreyfus, “every day you can look at it and you can make adjustments.” Accordingly, he and Headrick, a realtor, decided to skip the screens. They’d banish bugs with ceiling fans instead, and created clerestory openings at the top of one wall, for even more light. The porch is supported by black columns—steel with wood surround—that mimic existing black window and door frames. “They lighten the whole visual,” says Dreyfus. “The black disappears.” White brick walls and a metal trellis blend seamlessly with their older counterparts, making it hard to tell where the 1933 house ends and the addition, completed 80 years later, begins. The porch offers a view of an expanded landscape scheme that includes stone walls and planting beds, designed by landscape architect Anne Pray. Another lesson learned through experience: The front walk, formerly made of bluestone stepping stones, has given way to a continuous aggregate-and-stone walkway. “We learned that everybody has a different stride, and your stride is different

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restored. Years ago, when the balustrade on TJ’s mountaintop home rotted away, it was replaced with a new design. Last year, working from paintings, sketches and notes, architectural firm Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects was able to recreate the original design. And Charlottesville’s Gaston & Wyatt is in the process of remaking and installing the balustrades atop the little mountain. The north-facing railings are nearly complete, and the south-facing side is about halfway done. “In between the [upper and lower boards] is sandwiched pickets,” Gaston & Wyatt VP Keith Cutts says. “On top of them, they are sharpened to a point, per Thomas Jefferson’s instructions. All of that is put together with wrought iron nails that were provided to us by Monticello… which is essentially how Jefferson intended it to be put together.” For Monticello, several factors—wood rot, a failing deck, faithfulness to the original design— influenced the decision to scrap the existing balustrade and completely remake it. But how should the average homeowner make decisions about restoring or replacing historical wood details? In the first place, he should try to preserve the wood and avoid rot. “Every architectural detail or component has a different situation and would be treated differently, but the number one thing from keeping a piece of wood from rotting is proper maintenance,” Cutts says. “If your paint is chipped or chipping away, you should be sanding down to raw wood and re-priming and painting.” Rot doesn’t necessarily mean historic wood is done for. The trick is catching the problem before it becomes serious, according to carpenter Gary Lettan. “You really don’t know until you see it happening,” he says. “And you have to detect the source of the problem.”

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Monticello’s balustrades are being recreated to Thomas Jefferson’s specifications. In your own home, the rules are simpler: Avoid rot by properly maintaining your historic wood details.

Fortunately, Lettan says “there are a lot of ways of going about saving embellishments.” A minimal amount of rot can be sanded away and crafted into the original shape using epoxy filler, for example. “With the epoxy-based products, which are the consistency of playdough, the idea is you scrape away and remove the rotten material as much as possible, pack it in the void and use hand tools and sanders to cut it back down to the profile,” local woodworker Todd LeBack says. To determine the extent of wood rot, LeBack says an ice pick or knife can be inserted into the work piece to plumb its depth. And homeowners should make sure to get opinions from multiple contractors. It’s not economical to have a small amount of woodwork completely redone, so that’s where the epoxy comes in. If none of the wood is salvageable, LeBack says you can find most of the historic dies used to create details in the Albemarle area from Gaston & Wyatt.

If the specific profile you need isn’t available, it’s possible to recreate historic wood details using router bits and hand saws, LeBack says, but the process can be costly. Alternatively, you could go with a slightly different design that still preserves the historic character of the piece and the overall look and feel of the home. “People tend to copy what’s already out there,” Lettan says. “If you can’t copy something, you usually change the whole room so that you come close to what’s there, as long as your continuity continues through the whole house.” LeBack agrees and says that fortunately you can usually come close to the original with what’s commercially available. Or, you could rely on luck. “I was working on an old farmhouse, and they took the old plaster off the wall,” he says. “They actually found the molding plane that was used to make some of the trim on the house. They made the historic trim with the exact same hand plane.”

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very year since 2009, the Shelter for Help in Emergency has hosted its Design House event, taking a local home that’s on the market and transforming it with the assistance of some of Charlottesville’s best interior designers, landscape designers and local vendors. Proceeds from tours of the home benefit the nonprofit, which provides safe environments for survivors of domestic violence. This year, however, SHE is changing its format, opening a Design House every other year rather than annually. “The decision to move the Design House to an alternate year format is one that we have been contemplating for some time,” says SHE fundraising and development coordinator Sarah Ellis. “We wanted to establish the event in the Charlottesville community and have gone all out putting it on each year.” While you’ll have to wait until spring of 2018 to enjoy the next event (which Ellis says will be

“even bigger and better” than before), Natural Retreats’ Bundoran Farm is providing an alternate opportunity. The 2,300-acre rural community in Albemarle (and the site of the 2015 Southern Living Idea House) is offering Derry Cottage, its recently completed five-bedroom, four-bathroom show home, for tours April 1-15, Wednesday to Sunday. It’s not an official SHE Design House, but proceeds will benefit the nonprofit. You’ll see the handiwork of a few familiar faces: Green Mountain Construction designed and built the modern farmhouse, Javier Becerra handled the landscaping and Wendi Smith, founder of Leftover Luxuries, oversaw the interior design, pulling in wares from local vendors like Patina Antiques, The Shade Shop, Yves Delorme and Blanc Creatives (among others!) to complete each room. Tickets, available at the door, are $20 per tour. For more information, visit explorebundoran farm.com. ABODE 27

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“The original is still very original,” says an owner: floors, windows and woodwork, as well as working fireplaces, remain. Panelling and scrollwork on the staircase are the old home’s fanciest touches.

n a county like Albemarle, where vigorous growth routinely fills in open space with new homes, it’s reassuring to know there are still places where the opposite has happened. Wilhoit Mill Farm, near Earlysville, is one of those bucolic spots: a onetime rural village that’s less populated now than it was in the past. That’s not to say it’s abandoned; quite the opposite. Though the village of Wilhoit—which once boasted its own post office—isn’t here anymore, the site is still lovingly inhabited. Wilhoit Mill these days is a 25-acre farm centered on a spotless 1850s farmhouse, which continues to serve as a family home. The old millhouse that lends the farm its name, as well as several other village buildings, are still standing, arrayed in a protected bottomland around the Lynch River. “It’s amazing to think people have been living here for over 150 years,” says one of the current

owners, who bought the property in 2006. They had been searching for a property with land and a historical pedigree, and found both at Wilhoit Mill: wooded and open acreage, and a history stretching back well before the Civil War, to when the Wilhoit brothers, Ezekiel Jr. and Milton, ran a grist mill just a stone’s throw from Milton’s house. A bonus for these buyers: The house needed little in the way of renovation. “We didn’t want to have to do a house,” says one owner. “We just needed to do some landscaping.” The original antebellum home had already been extensively added onto, modernized and updated.

Layered details The house is a pastiche of eras. Thanks to traditional detailing, as the owners say, “it all flows together.” Its original portion, an I-house—that

is, a two-over-two colonial farmhouse—has a classically symmetrical façade. It gained a rear addition in 1900, which made the house an L shape and now boasts a double porch, the lower part of which is screened. In 1997, two more large additions brought the home into the 21st century, adding considerable living space and functionality. The result is a far cry from the simple, oneroom-deep dwelling pictured in historical photos. These days, the house is a showplace, with custom stonework and neat garden beds complementing its substantial form. Prominent placement is given to the millstone from the mill: in the center of the flagstone walkway leading to the front door. The original section is a visual and historical anchor for the home, while the additions hold CONTINUED ON PAGE 39

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the spaces where the family most often gathers. “The original is still very original,” says an owner—meaning the beautiful floors, windows and woodwork (and working fireplaces) but also a lack of insulation. More recent portions are considerably more comfortable. Still, the original heart of the home—wide center hallway, parlor, dining room and two upstairs bedrooms—has an unmistakable magnetism. Paneling and scrollwork on the main staircase are the old house’s fanciest touches; in essence it is a vernacular structure meant to house a hardworking family. The owners puzzle over what must have been a costly extra—a second staircase in the dining room. Were there, perhaps, two families living here, in need of privacy? What’s certain is that later stewards of the property found ways to raise the luxury factor considerably. More than a century ago, the house gained a rear addition that now contains the kitchen on the first floor and a bedroom on the second, both of them opening onto long porches. (Old photos show that this addition was originally smaller, with no second-floor porch; it seems that each generation of occupants has left its mark on the house’s form.) The current owners found the kitchen recently updated, with cream-colored Shaker cabinetry, granite countertops and beadboard ceiling. Their only change was to enlarge windows looking onto the screened porch. A sitting area near the fireplace—which has been fitted with a small woodstove—adds a note of gentility to the room. The most recent additions, made nearly a century later, address modern wants and needs. On one end of the original I-house, a new sitting room provides built-in bookcases and a TV niche, a large bay window and a nook that luckily made a place for the current occupants to hang a large, beloved horse painting. Extending along the rear is a garage and mudroom that supports a second-floor master suite with a sauna, two bathrooms and a hallway lined with built-in cabinets. The mudroom is as pleasant a place to spend time as any parlor or sitting room; it has a slate floor, a wall of windows and enough room for a center organizing table and a desk. Of course, the requisite hooks and cubbies are here too, and the nearby bathroom boasts a steam shower.

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A bluestone path leads visitors down a long axis straight to the front door, dividing the formal garden down the middle as it goes, while another perpendicular path forms a cross.

he solidity of the wide brick house off Garth Road is broken in just one place: Look in the front door, and your gaze can travel all the way through the back of the house to the distant mountains. It’s a moment in which the landscape asserts itself, thanks to the placement of a large glassed-in rear porch. “I fell in love with that view,” says the owner of the day in 2014 when she first glimpsed it. But she knew that the landscape design around the house was not framing that view the way it should. “We needed a better approach,” she says. A new parking court made way for a big change: The lackluster front garden became a showpiece, with walkways that magnify the impact of the mountain vista. A bluestone path leads the eye (and the feet) down a long axis straight to the front door, dividing a formal garden down the middle as

it goes. Another perpendicular path forms a cross, sectioning this boxwood-framed area into four quadrants. Though the owner, at previous residences, had had gardens in a looser English cottage style, this one is a classic geometric parterre. “The brick walls were here; we worked within it,” she says. “It’s a real perennial garden. There’s always something to look at.” Each quadrant is anchored by a Cornus constellation dogwood and bordered by boxwoods. Within these outlines, a riot of blooms fills the space and the calendar: Tall Annabelle and paniculata limelight hydrangeas along the far edges, then lavender, penstemon, bee balm and toad lilies. White hyacinths fill the small squares around each central dogwood; baptisia and butterfly weed attract pollinators. Peonies give color in early summer and daisies in mid-sum-

mer; hellebores light up in late winter next to the graceful skeletons of last year’s sedum. This formal garden is impressive in itself, but what really sets it off are the looser plantings along the driveway and in the other beds near the house. The owner and her husband have named their property Choill Mhor—Gaelic for “Great Woods”—in honor of the forest that surrounds the home and lawn. To approach the house by car is to wind through a section of forest that, when they first arrived, was riddled with invasive species. “In two and a half years you can really clean a place up,” says the owner, who was keen to learn which of the established plants were natives and which didn’t belong. Japanese stiltgrass, a common invasive that was prevalent in these woods, was the major nemesis. After removing the stiltgrass, she CONTINUED ON PAGE 53

Within these outlines, a riot of blooms fills the space and the calendar: Tall Annabelle and paniculata limelight hydrangeas along the far edges, then lavender, penstemon, bee balm and toad lilies. ABODE 49

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Throughout the garden, sculptures, birdbaths and containers provide moments of interest to break up swaths of green. ABODE 51

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A walk among the flowers In addition to Choill Mhor and the usual suspects, such as Morven Estate and the University of Virginia’s Pavilion gardens, this year’s Historic Garden Week (April 22-29) features four other Charlottesville and Albemarle residences open for tours.

Southfield Over the past 17 years, the owners of this 20-acre property have added outbuildings, hardscaping, an infinity-edged pool and gardens in every direction. The landscape includes many unusual native and non-native plants, winter flowering shrubs and winding paths toward water features at various points.

Midway As per the original blueprint of this Albemarle landscape, laid out by designer Charles Gillette in 1936, a portion of the garden is dedicated to a selection of roses that blooms in a continuum of intense to pale color. Don’t miss the house, too: an early 19th-century farmhouse on a former hemp, flax and tobacco plantation.

The Laing House Many years of living in Asia and England influenced the owners of this wooded property off Ridge Road, which features a Georgianinfluenced home filled with Asian artifacts and furnishings, as well as an extensive art collection. Surrounding the house are informal gardens developed over the last nine years that feature Japanese maples and azaleas, spring bulbs and a double-blossom dogwood.

Fox Ridge An active equestrian farm on 280 acres, this Farmington Hunt Club property boasts a 200-year-old log cabin, a cemetery dating to the late 1700s and the main house, a Neo-Georgian structure built in 1945. Find a boxwood parterre garden, vegetable garden and arrays of hellebores, hostas, daffodils and lily of the valley. Visit vagardenweek.org for more information.

The garden is a feast for the eyes year-round: Peonies give color in early summer and daisies in mid-summer; hellebores light up in late winter next to the graceful skeletons of last year’s sedum. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 49

had dozens of native dogwood and redbud trees planted along the edge of the woods, to be visible from the driveway. Thousands of daffodils bring early-spring color and resist hungry deer, too. An original garden shed was covered in vines; she restored it as a functional shed and a focal point beneath mature magnolia, pine, holly and cryptomeria trees. Nearby planting beds feature epimedium ground cover and fringe trees for summer interest, with more daffodils and hellebores for late winter and spring. On the west side of the house, impressive oaks and poplars provide the structure while newly planted dogwood and redbud promise to bring color and delicacy to the landscape. A pollinator garden, rescued from a tangle of bramble, now hosts echinacea, rudbeckia, bee balm and oakleaf hydrangea. Aster, too—“Boy, did it perform!” enthuses the owner. A towering grandiflora magnolia anchors the side yard. “You just work around those,” the owner acknowledges. Same with the red oak on

the back side of the house, which sports a dreamy wooden swing and marks the beginning of the property’s best feature: a mowed allée leading downhill to a small lake. At the uphill end, she planted a shade garden with ghost ferns, lady ferns, Solomon’s seal and bleeding hearts. More ferns, plus azaleas and Japanese maples, fill in planting beds on this, the north side of the house. Here and there, sculptures, birdbaths and containers provide moments of interest to break up the swaths of foliage and color. Just outside the kitchen door is an herb garden (in winter, filled with pansies and camellia), as well as a fringe tree that attracts finches to enliven the morning coffee ritual inside. Espaliered pear trees mark an arched breezeway connecting the patio to the pea-gravel parking court. It’s a lovely place to stroll, and a lovely to view, too, from indoors—especially from the glassedin porch, which the current owners use as a dining room. The mountain view can be part of every meal.

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