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Villa Hutton
Garden Restoration
We have been restoring
the garden after years of
overgrowth and poor
maintenance. It was
divided into three different
parcels and required the
removal of laurel hedges.
We can imagine how the
villa must have been with
its 25 acres of woods
and fields of horses.
They would have had an
unobstructed view of the
Pyrenees from the
garden which can never
be recuperated; although
we do have beautiful
views from the first and
second floors.
Our objective was to
reunify the three parcels
(total 3/4 acre) that we
purchased, and design a
garden to be more
appropriate to the villa's
charm. To celebrate the
past and for privacy, we
wanted to have a
country-like setting on
the east side of the villa
and to bring the villa into
the 21st century, we
wanted a more formal
setting on the street-side
or west lawn. We also
wanted year-round
flowers.
The garden has a nice
selection of older oak,
chestnut, cedar, linden,
laurel, and bay laurel
trees, with a 150 year old
magnolia and several
camellias and a
rhododendron of about
the same age.
plants and trees (with a
few trunks still waiting for
removal,) and removed
the overhead telephone,
electric and cable lines
along with four poles. We
transplanted several
hundred boxwood and
supplemented them with
500 additional ones. We
have also transplanted
about fifty rose bushes,
purchased others and
taken clippings of some
for a total of 160.
We have filled in the
garden with seventy
hydrangeas, forty
azaleas, forty
agapanthus, peonies,
lavendar, additional
camellias for a total of 25,
rhododendrons, lilacs,
tulip magnolias,
dogwoods, Italian
cypresses and a 20
year-old umbrella pine,
that we look forward to
reaching maturity in
about 100 years.
We have over 30,000
crocus, 10,000 daffodils,
about 1,000 irises and a
nice selection of lilies
and some potted citrus
trees.
With the major garden
infrastructure now
completed, the garden
restoration will continue
throughout 2007 and into
2008 as we fill in with
other flowering plants,
remove the remaining
tree trunks, replace an
old garage, replace the
front gates, install the
north lawn with a terrace
for the marquis entrance
and install an irrigation
system, which will
operate using the original
well.
the garden after years of
overgrowth and poor
maintenance. It was
divided into three different
parcels and required the
removal of laurel hedges.
We can imagine how the
villa must have been with
its 25 acres of woods
and fields of horses.
They would have had an
unobstructed view of the
Pyrenees from the
garden which can never
be recuperated; although
we do have beautiful
views from the first and
second floors.
Our objective was to
reunify the three parcels
(total 3/4 acre) that we
purchased, and design a
garden to be more
appropriate to the villa's
charm. To celebrate the
past and for privacy, we
wanted to have a
country-like setting on
the east side of the villa
and to bring the villa into
the 21st century, we
wanted a more formal
setting on the street-side
or west lawn. We also
wanted year-round
flowers.
The garden has a nice
selection of older oak,
chestnut, cedar, linden,
laurel, and bay laurel
trees, with a 150 year old
magnolia and several
camellias and a
rhododendron of about
the same age.
plants and trees (with a
few trunks still waiting for
removal,) and removed
the overhead telephone,
electric and cable lines
along with four poles. We
transplanted several
hundred boxwood and
supplemented them with
500 additional ones. We
have also transplanted
about fifty rose bushes,
purchased others and
taken clippings of some
for a total of 160.
We have filled in the
garden with seventy
hydrangeas, forty
azaleas, forty
agapanthus, peonies,
lavendar, additional
camellias for a total of 25,
rhododendrons, lilacs,
tulip magnolias,
dogwoods, Italian
cypresses and a 20
year-old umbrella pine,
that we look forward to
reaching maturity in
about 100 years.
We have over 30,000
crocus, 10,000 daffodils,
about 1,000 irises and a
nice selection of lilies
and some potted citrus
trees.
With the major garden
infrastructure now
completed, the garden
restoration will continue
throughout 2007 and into
2008 as we fill in with
other flowering plants,
remove the remaining
tree trunks, replace an
old garage, replace the
front gates, install the
north lawn with a terrace
for the marquis entrance
and install an irrigation
system, which will
operate using the original
well.
Garden Pictures - 2005
