Monday, January 20, 2014

As though direct from France comes this Long Island garden.....

   As though direct from France comes this Long Island garden to take the year's gold medal. 


WALLS OF FRENCH TREILLAGE
    
   The estate of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McCann at Oyster Bay contains several gardens, all of them laid out in the French manner. Treillage forms the background for one part, another is a walled entrance court with its pool and terminal statue and still a third is a formal garden reached by the wide steps pictured here. It was designed by Annette Hoyt Flanders to whom was awarded the gold medal of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Drawings by Joseph B. Platt.

STEPS TO THE FORMAL GARDENS

THE WALLED GARDEN

DOGWOOD ABOVE TULIPS

***At "Sunken Orchard", Mrs. Charles McCann's estate in Oyster Bay, Annette Hoyt Flanders' extensive landscaping included woodlands, bridle paths, dogwood allées and perennial gardens, as well as formal French gardens in the style of Le Nôtre surrounding the playhouse. In 1932 she was awarded the Medal of Honor in Landscape Architecture from the Architectural League of New York.***

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