Moonlight Serenade —

(continued from page 124) sweep silently across a pale garden, next summer in the twilight—the pale garden that I am now planting, under the first flakes of snow.”

At that time, her magnificent property featured a cottage garden where she experimented with “hot” colors—orange, red and yellow. She recognized that by restricting the new garden to white, silver and grey she needed to create interest and drama by using plants with contrasting shapes, heights, textures and form. Her husband created the overall structure with dark green hedges of yew and boxwood. Her plans portrayed ‘‘a low sea of grey clumps of foliage, pierced here and there with tall white flowers.”

Today, this world-renowned garden is filled with white-flowered roses, peonies, irises, hydrangeas, Japanese anemones, low mounds of silver-grey lamb’s ears, silvery artemisia and santolina. Spires of foxtail lily, lilies, and verbascum

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