Go Inside a Landscape Architect's Stunning Magic Garden

It took one couple 30 years to accumulate this most curious collection of plants. Learn all about their story and click through for a tour of their spectacular magic garden.

Delicate blossoms of sweet woodruff and Spanish bluebells burst forth in spring.

To create the weeping-beech tunnel, Gwynne and Folcarelli began with 12-inch pots of Fagus sylvatica ‘Black Swan,’ which they trained over nine-foot-tall steel hoops made by local tinsmiths. They had to insert wedges of wood between the branches and the hoops, because otherwise the metal, heated by the summer sun, would burn the branches. In spring, dark-red tulips and purple alliums add a splash of color to the border.

“Even on a foggy day, the yellow garden always appears sunny and bright,” says Gwynne; an eight-foot-tall boxwood hedge, which Folcarelli pruned to just a foot wide, frames the space and provides a backdrop for pale ‘Golden Star’ rhododendrons.

Yellow-edged comfrey complements the gauzy flowers of alexanders (Zizia).