Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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56 SUMMER 2019 N ESTLED IN HAMILTON'S HISTORIC DISTRICT IS A fanciful cottage that features a New England garden of yesteryear with a modern Lilly Pulitzer-esque kick. Boldly painted Benjamin Moore's "Yellow Lotus," the 18th-century antique structure has an azalea-pink front door and a chartreuse back door. The property is encircled by a white picket fence, each post adorned with a white ceramic woodland animal, a feature beloved by neighborhood children for years. Within lies the front garden, bursting with color even in late summer, when most others are spent. And it is no "secret garden," but a gift for the admiring eyes of locals and day-trippers alike. Robin Sears is the maestro of this petite landscape, and her artistic background has influenced its evolu- tion. She grew up in a "chaotically creative family" in New York City. After college she worked in retail during the 1990s for clothiers such as Macy's, J. Peterman, Talbots, and a young Tommy Hilfiger. Later, she jumped into her real passion: art and design. She was given creative leeway as director of product development and design for the former Essex Collection, a much-adored Cape Ann ceramics company. Once she was married and living on the North Shore, her interest in gardening took off after visits to Canaan cultivate nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Clockwise from top left, Artist-gardener, Robin Sears, tends her summer blooms. A riot of roses, cosmos, and Black-eyed Susan's tumble over the classic picket fence. A bumblebee alights on a 'Double Trouble' dahlia. An 'Clearview Daniel,' a lovely primrose yellow "pompom" dahlia. 'AC Lavender' spiky dahlia.