FAMILY RETREAT

RYE \ NEW YORK

White house overlooks a gravel court edged by sculpted shrubs and lawn.

FAMILY RETREAT

RYE \ NEW YORK

Conceived alongside the home’s renovation, this landscape was reimagined as a year-round garden for a young family of six, balancing English garden traditions with contemporary restraint within a modest footprint. Preserved Japanese maples frame a redesigned entry where custom benches, boxwood globes, low hedges, and ornamental grasses offer a composed moment of arrival, while a sequence of “garden rooms” unfolds beyond—beginning with a pollinator-friendly perennial garden and flowering crabapples, and transitioning to a dining terrace and fire feature framed by clipped hedges and vibrant walkways. A central play lawn is anchored by three sheared holly evergreens, while an aerial linden hedge, panicle hydrangeas, and furnished terraces define the pool, spa, and outdoor kitchen as a seamless extension of the home. A small private garden with a custom water feature and softened gravel completes the composition, reflecting a design defined by layered planting, spatial clarity, and an enduring sense of calm throughout the seasons.

COLLABORATORS

Joeb Moore & Partners

Victoria Hagan Interiors

Grasso Development Corp.

Sandoval’s Landscaping & Masonry

PHOTOGRAPHY

Neil Landino

White house overlooks a gravel court edged by sculpted shrubs and lawn.
Two chairs and a small table in a gravel clearing surrounded by tall planting.
Winding gravel paths divide loosely planted beds beside the house.
Reddish seed heads rise above fine stems in a green garden border.
Dense mounds of fine green ornamental grass ripple across a planting bed.
Pink coneflower with an orange center among slender grass stems.
Delicate stems and pale flowers catch sunlight against green foliage.
Purple flowers mingle with pale coneflowers in a loose perennial border.
Outdoor dining table beside the white house, enclosed by lush shrubs and perennials.
Dark sculptural bench amid clipped round shrubs and rectangular paving.
Outdoor sofas and a rectangular fire feature on a terrace between hedges.
Flames rise between pale lounge chairs framed by clipped green shrubs.
White umbrellas shade poolside lounge chairs beneath trees and a raised hedge.
Low clipped hedges and flowing grasses form layered bands beside the pool.
Pale steps interrupt a stone retaining wall beneath grasses and round flower heads.
Pool seen through small trees and layered hedges from an upper garden terrace.
Stepping-stone path weaves between rounded shrubs and flowers beside the house.
Long outdoor dining table on a stone terrace bordered by garden planting.
Gravel garden path approaches a dining terrace outside open glass doors.
Garden seating faces a dark water feature beneath a spreading tree.
White umbrellas and lounge chairs beside the pool in golden evening light.
Rectangular pool set within lawn beside the house and mature trees at sunset.

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