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The lushly cloaked house and
front garden are green and seductive.
Covered with fig vine, Ficus pumila,
the house looks like it was imported
from Europe. The entrance to the
brick walk features a wrought iron
gate festooned with cattails.
The surprises begin at the end
of the driveway, where two crape
myrtles formed into an arch,
mark the transition into the back
woodland. Interconnecting path-ways
wander and ramble through-out
this woodland wonderland,
turning corners and revealing
new discoveries.
A pea gravel walkway meanders
and descends into the garden beneath
tall pines. The grade change is a
marvelous treat. The pathway leads
down the hill to a natural brook,
lined with stones and interplanted
with holly ferns, Cyrtomium falcatum,
azaleas and irises. A log remnant from
an old tree lies across the streambed,
blending with the greenery. Once
over a wooden bridge across the
stream, the pathway reaches the
garden’s next portal, a mature archway
of holly-leaf tea olive, Osmanthus x
fortunei. This is the transition point
into the upper hillside garden, where
another patio contemplates the entire
back garden.
On the hillside, water pools and
cascades downstream and falls from
an upper pond, under a stone bridge,
and into a koi pond below. A small
seating area is next to the koi pond,
tucked away in the greenery facing
the trickling stream.
Shade plants scattered throughout
the garden include Japanese fatsia,
Fatsia japonica; Korean boxwood;
tulip magnolia, Magnolia soulange-ana;
Southern magnolia, Magnolia
grandiflora; camellias; azaleas; mondo
grass, Ophiopogon japonicus, and its
dwarf, O. japonicus ‘Nana,’ liriope,
Liriope muscari, and various ivies.
With its green blanket, the house
both observes and is part of the land-scape
surrounding it.
5814-2 Oleander Drive • Wilmington, N.C. 28403 • 910-523-5790
theredtulip5814@gmail.com • www.theredtulipshop.com
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