United States of America -- Louisiana -- Orleans Parish -- New Orleans
Scope and Contents:
2 folders and 11 35mm slides and 10 digital images. Images 001-011 photographed by Vaughn L. Banting. Images 012 and 19-020 photographed by Flora French. Images 013-018 and 021 copyrighted by Tina Freedman.
General:
This formal garden on a small urban lot has grown but not changed since it was designed in 1974 and 1977. The old brick walls built by the owner's father circa 1940 are visible through the trunks of cherry laurel. Geometric rows of trimmed hedges include white and salmon azaleas, white camellias, and the lowest row of dwarf boxwood with brick edging softened by mondo grass. There is a ribbon of color between the hedges that is changed out seasonally, with apricot tulips, pink and white Angelonia or white vinca. Four antique French statues of musical cherubs have been raised on plinths with apricot hybrid tea roses and white hawthorn shrubs filling the gap between hedges. Two lion head wall fountains continually spray into a curving pool painted dark charcoal. A large Japanese magnolia planted in the 1950's, holly fern, fatsia, wood iris, ligularia, and containers with boxwood balls and trailing white vinca soften the brick hardscape. On one side of the garden the rows of hedges were planted in a serpentine curve, departing from the strict linear pattern. Other than needed replacements and changing out the rows of seasonal plants the owner intends to keep the garden very much the same.
Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. Emile Kuntz (former owners, 1938-1973); Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Capomazza (owners, 1973- ); Rene Gelpi (architect, date unknown); Dorothy (Baby) Hardie (landscape architect, 1974); Vaughn Banting (landscape designer, 1977); Franklin Andira (gardener, 2008- ).
Collection Restrictions:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
