Kempton Garden

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Kempton Garden

A beautiful garden with blooming purple and pink flowers and tall grasses, in front of a modern building with large glass windows. The sun is shining through the trees, creating a warm glow.
A cozy patio area with wooden chairs is surrounded by lush greenery and stone walls. The space is covered, providing shade while offering a view of the vibrant garden. A small path leads through the garden, enhancing the tranquil outdoor setting.
A rustic stone house is surrounded by vibrant gardens. Pink flowers and lush greenery fill the foreground, while vines and trees accentuate the picturesque scene against a partly cloudy sky.
A vibrant meadow scene with tall, slender green plants interspersed with brown and purple flowers. Sunlight highlights the foliage, creating a serene, natural atmosphere. Blurred grasses gently sway in the background.
A lush garden with a variety of flowering plants in purple, orange, and green in front of a modern stone building. Tall trees and a clear sky are in the background, creating a serene, natural setting.
A lush meadow with green grass and vibrant wildflowers in purple, pink, and white hues. Rolling hills and scattered trees are visible in the background under a bright blue sky.
A stone house with large windows stands amidst a lush garden. The foreground features vibrant pink, orange, and purple wildflowers, and the path leads through the greenery. Clear blue sky and trees frame the serene landscape.
A lush garden with vibrant wildflowers and tall grass in the foreground, backed by green trees and a sunlit field. The scene is serene, with soft, natural lighting enhancing the tranquil landscape.
A lush garden with vibrant flowers in shades of purple and orange is in the foreground. Behind, a modern stone and wood building is partially visible, framed by tall trees under a clear sky.
A lush, natural landscape featuring tall grasses, green bushes, and rocky elements under a cloudy blue sky.
A lush garden filled with various blooming flowers and tall grasses in front of a stone building with large windows. The scene is vibrant with orange, purple, and green hues under a sunny sky.

project description

The garden envelopes a small parcel on the historic Ardrossan Farms, surrounding 'Blackbird', a stone, clapboard and charred wood clad modernist home by MAMO Architects. Situated on a knoll, the garden is primed for quiet moments that borrow views through a shallow pastoral valley.

Guests enter the property through open plantings of Oak, Cornelian Cherry and Ironwood trees underplanted with layers of spring bulbs and stylized layers of native and cosmopolitan cool and warm season grasses and flowering perennials. The sinuous lines of the gardens throughout the entire site define pathways that are designed to inspire exploration through an immersive experience of plants

Groves of Carpinus and Cercis create a woodland effect along the western edge of the garden. Its narrow pathway creates a romantic journey through layers of woodland and edge herbaceous plantings of bee balm, red columbine and geraniums. The woodland path leads to the crest of a south facing slope that is planted with a bright, early layer summer tapestry of Geum 'Totally Tangerine,' Salvia 'Wesuwe' and Phlomis tuberosa that slowly melds into the hay fields below.

As the summer transitions, from below, the meadow is highlighted by purple spikes of Liatris pycnostachya whimsically rocketing over head, intermingled with Achillea 'Terra Cotta and Eupatorium 'Phantom' that weave through cool purple and blue tones of Schizachyrium 'Standing Ovation.' The southern gardens were laid out to allow for an upper and lower traverse running east to west so one can explore the garden and enjoy the many layers of herbaceous plants designed as a tapestry of forms and colors.

Willow Oak and Sweetbay Magnolia are planted close to the foundation to bring landscape into the home through views from the interior through the large glass curtain wall. This entire site is defined by the desire of the owners to live joyfully, embedded in an immersive garden.

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