When Gentle Gardener landscape designer Virginia Rockwell bought her country home, the environment included a hill behind the house that had been eroded due to clear-cutting ten years previously. Virginia’s solution included a 1200-square-foot brick terrace for entertaining that stretches the length of the house and a 100’-plus-long border on contour. A water garden is fed by rainwater collected from the garden shed roof. Native plants and perennials are planted in berms cut on-contour with swales to catch water for irrigation (a permaculture concept); stone retaining walls double as seating.

Perennial beds in autumn   Little Cameron's water gardens

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