Gardens of Perpetual Cultivation

Brookline, Massachusetts | 1999-2009 Cambridge Massachusetts | 2009-current

Collaboration Tanya Kelley, Sophath Toun, Trevor Lee, Dick Roche Landscape

Trees 7 trees - and thousands of flowers

A long-time collaboration with an avid gardener has cultivated two gardens over twenty years. The initial Garden of Perpetual Cultivation was a hillside perennial garden that perched above a reconstructed stone wall wrapping around an historic Italianate house.

The second Garden of Perpetual Cultivation, a result of moving to a new home, transformed a front lawn into a garden enclosed by a tall tapestry hedge and a flowering woodland border of viburnums and bottlebrush buckeyes. The garden is divided into four quadrants, two of which are exuberant with ferns and the other two are perpetually cultivated perennials inspired by Mozart and John Cage scores.