Well, I have also created rooms in the garden just like an

interior designer would create. I kind of can’t get away

from that. I want to hem things in and create different

spaces and different experiences, like I do as an interior

designer as well.

You’ve created this wonderful

sense of these individual spaces,

with really interesting spaces

that feel very expansive.

Well, thank you very much. And you’re correct, because

there are five different gardens here that I look at. I have

the entry court that I think of as literally the entry foyer of

my garden, in which I entertain people. It’s a gravel area

surrounded by shade trees and ornamentals.

Then I have the French potager. I have another garden

which you can view from the Belvedere. You view the

entire garden from there. I have the walled garden, which

the deer can’t get in because deer are a major problem

here, but I can experiment in that garden with all sorts of

different planting materials like exotics and all sorts of

things. And then I have the garden that is specifically for

the deer that I’ve experimented with for years, as we were

talking about earlier, with gray plants, plants that are

scented.

And then I have the natural garden, which is for the

butterflies and for the dragonflies, fireflies and all of the

different flora and fauna in that part of the garden.

Is there a space that you

feel most attached to or that

inspires you the most?

Probably in the home, I would say this room that we’re in

right now, because I designed it in reference to the golden

rectangle or the golden mean. I experimented with the

concept of what does a room feel like that adhered to all

the geometric principles of the Greek Golden Mean. And I

feel that when I created it, the room actually worked.