Chestnut Hill Estate
Private Residence
Brookline, Massachusetts

 

A Georgian-style mansion stands boldly upon a sloping urban parcel surrounded by large canopy trees, playing fields, busy roads, and similarly scaled neighboring homes. New vegetation communities are thoughtfully located to provide enclosure and to buffer disruptive sounds outside the property. Massive swaths of perennials and groundcovers bloom, smothering the ground with a symphony of color and texture. A brick wall encloses the garden and separates the property from the busy streetscape, and a spectacular antique copper beech anchors the landscape. Dense clusters of yew, rhododendron, mountain laurel, and pieris form evergreen structure and the garden feels mature, established, and alive.

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