When the previous owner commissioned modernist architect John Scott to build the house, she’d also consulted him about the planting. She wanted a fast-growing garden, so together they planted dozens of trees, very close together.
Treasured trees inherited from the previous owner include huge golden elms, a gleditsia, with an elegant weeping form and lime-gold leaves, and a liriodendron, commonly known as a tulip tree.
Although the forest framework of the garden was established, there was no underplanting when the Bazzards arrived. “Apart from the trees, it was a rough and ready garden,” says Kay. “You make a garden your own. I shaped it by putting in smaller plants that can live beneath trees and in a hot, dry climate.”