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A formal private garden on Embassy Row (2900 Benton Pl. NW) that landscape architects recently toured is open to the public Saturday as part of the Garden Conservancy’s nationwide Open Days program. The five gardens in Northwest
Washington and Silver Spring were chosen for their extraordinary designs. Organizers suggest visitors start at the Posner and Kendig- Dumont gardens (1837 Plymouth St. NW), which are paired as one admission. Directions to the other gardens will be available there. A couple named the Duemlings
open their garden, at 2950 University Terr. NW, which features two acres that include large terraces, a woodland path, an herb garden and a cut-flower and vegetable garden. The Hester garden in the Woodside
Park neighborhood of Silver Spring (1115 Noyes Dr.) provides another example of landscape design on a site with significant grade changes. The gardens are open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to each is $5. For more information, call 888-842-2442 or visit
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a small side garden featuring a round fish pond and beds of roses, enclosed by a high, clipped beech hedge. The tall hedge is a fabulous device for creating a high wall, especially in a small urban garden, but it requires vision and patience and a twice-a-year clipping by someone who knows what he’s doing. Designed by Lila Fendrick, this garden wraps around an Italianate villa and has a timeless beaux-arts feel about it. Opulent but relaxed. Seasoned landscape architects know all this stuff; what they’re looking for is the same sort of thing any garden lover is seeking on a tour: ideas and inspiration. It might be something as small as the radius of an arching stone step, or the grate detail of a drain. “One of the things I love about these gardens is that every square inch is wonderfully designed and maximized,” said Kathryn Pacious, a designer based in Alexandria. She was saying this after looking at a rear garden in Cleveland Park by Florence Everts. It
incorporates a swimming pool and an old garage that has been converted into an elegant pavilion. The garden is framed by lattice fencing, painted white. The fence provides privacy but with a lightness that would be lost with a solid fence. Elsewhere, Everts has hidden the black tubing of a container irrigation pipe under the stone wall’s limestone top. Her cohorts lapped it up. In the garden by Honeyman, the tourists are drawn to a stone wall fountain with a sheeting waterfall. Craig Bergmann, a landscape architect in Wilmette, Ill., noticed that the submerged lamps in the pond were topped with bronze covers with a lily pad motif. Water features are tough on their materials and
components, especially in states such as Minnesota. William Pesek, a landscape architect in St. Paul, eyes everything through the prism of a brutal freeze-thaw effect. “You’ll see a lot of water features done 15, 20 years ago now serving as planters,” he said.
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THE WASHINGTON POST • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
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