IN BRIEF
Name inSitu.
What Large country garden with views over rolling hills, developed over 13 years.
Where Connecticut, USA. Size Eight acres.
Soil Fertile clay, with rocks.
Climate Hot and humid summers, long periods of snow in winter.
Hardiness zone USDA 6a.
As a design approach, the phrase ‘go big or go home’ would make sense for any eight-acre garden but it seems particularly fitting in the New England countryside. With harsh winters, and hot summers that are reliably humid, there is a smaller plant palette with which to work than in, say, northern Europe. When American garden designer Richard Hartlage of the Seattle-based design practice Land Morphology finds plant cultivars that thrive in this climate, he plants them
