Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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36 SPRING 2016 nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ cultivate J ULIE MOIR MESSERVY, THE AWARD-WINNING SAXONS River, Vermont, landscape designer and author, laughs as she recalls the beginnings of this dreamy woodland pond and garden in Beverly Farms. "One day I got a call from the homeowner and I went to see her," Messervy recalls. "She has a big old house overlooking the ocean set on a wonderful piece of land. The problem she brought to me was the fact that the road goes close by her door, exposing her to the gaze of passing motorists. 'I want a garden where I can walk around in my nightgown,' she told me. When we first began to work on this project, we called it the Night- gown Garden." A less talented designer might have put up a tall fence, but Messervy created privacy in a far more imaginative way: Her plan called for the creation of a new pond. The soil unearthed when the pond was dug became a mound along its upland edge. Atop that berm, The pond and resulting high berm help separate the house from the nearby road.