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As most dedicated gardeners know, creativity and a collaborative spirit can keep a lush landscape vibrant for a lifetime.
boxing match
Homeowner Allen Logerquist “brought his own ideas to the garden,” explains landscape designer Joseph Tyree, “like using the Buxus sempervirens ‘Graham Blandy’, which creates great vertical interest among the box balls in the herb garden.”
As most dedicated gardeners know, creativity and a collaborative spirit can keep a lush landscape vibrant for a lifetime. This highly textured garden belonging to Dr. Allen Logerquist, an infectious-disease specialist in New York City, proves how a personal paradise can be created in a small space—and have staying power. “It was one of the first gardens that I designed on my own and fully implemented,” says Bridgehampton-based landscape designer Joseph Tyree, who credits Logerquist’s Midwest upbringing and related love of plants for his continued successes in the garden. “This was more of a team process. And it’s nice when a client buys plants and actually plants them himself!”
Now that the garden is nearly 20 years old, people familiar with the property look for the witch hazels heralding spring in March and the late-blooming hydrangeas of deep summer as they drive by the hidden oasis. “It has held up well,” says Tyree, “due principally to Allen’s continuing contribution, which cannot be underestimated. It’s his garden now.”
plan of action
To brighten up a shady spot adjacent to the back dining terrace, Tyree used a variegated boxwood. A sinuous crape myrtle provides year-round interest with its cinnamon bark, August-blooming flowers, and colorful fall foliage. Tyree’s quietly sophisticated style is in evidence in his mix of the ever popular Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’, with its big, full white blossoms, and the more toned down H. arborescens, which has flatter, lacecap-like blooms.
plan: SALLY O’CONNOR
plan of action
The garden plan (above left) is anchored around a formal brick parterre and gently curving paths in the lawn (above right).
The drawings originally called for a driveway and garage, which were never built. “Allen doesn’t subscribe to all of the Hamptons ideals,” says Tyree. “He just parks on the street!”
bricks and order
White-leafed caladiums illuminate an iron bench in a shady nook off the herb garden, which is on an axis with the living room’s bay window. Creeping thymes, sages, rosemary, and other Mediterranean plants take the spotlight as the summer heats up. Here and elsewhere in the garden Logerquist plants scented geraniums each year to soften the edges. Front and center in the brick-paved parterre is a Victorian cast-iron urn, regularly planted with Phormium ‘Flamingo’.
The garden is one of the first “that I designed on my own and fully implemented, but this was a team process. It’s nice when a client buys plants and actually plants them himself!”
bricks and order
White-leafed caladiums illuminate an iron bench in a shady nook off the herb garden, which is on an axis with the living room’s bay window. Creeping thymes, sages, rosemary, and other Mediterranean plants take the spotlight as the summer heats up. Here and elsewhere in the garden Logerquist plants scented geraniums each year to soften the edges. Front and center in the brick-paved parterre is a Victorian cast-iron urn, regularly planted with Phormium ‘Flamingo’.
