Garden & Gun

Tennessee Masterpiece

The sounds of a cascading fountain, a trickling lily pad pond, a stucco bell tower. The sights of an elephant-shaped topiary, towering Italian cypresses, and a miniature Roman amphitheater. And as you descend the terraced back garden of Christy and Todd McCain in Chattanooga, a jewel box to spark the rest of the senses: a wrought-iron-and-glass conservatory filled with the scent of lemon and

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