This tight, awkward and shaded space in Cambridge became a garden for relaxing and reflecting.
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Pictured Left: A stairway of weathering steel and permeable pea gravel equipped with a “hand rill” (a hand rail that functions as a water rill) was designed to link upper and lower gardens and maximize the space between the home and the neighbor’s fence. The stairway is flanked by plants tolerant of filtered light: Aruncus dioicus (goat’s beard), Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’, Lamium spp., and Aster divaricatus (white wood aster).
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Pictured Right: This tranquil meditation hut overlooks plantings like liriope, creeping Jenny, hellebore, ginger, Clethra alnifolia, and ferns, and is in earshot of the calming sounds of water. Water from the hand rill falls into this circular steel pool in front of the meditation hut and then flows into a curving rill to recirculate over a fountain of stones.
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See more shaded gardens (plus read more about this garden) by clicking the link in our bio under “Shade Garden Photo Gallery.” Photos by Susan Teare.
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