A Sculptural
Landscape
Carolyn and John Falletta
803 Cedar Falls Road
Low stone walls and pillars supporting a wrought iron gate frame a winding entrance road that bridges a brook, then rises up a gentle slope bordered by azaleas and iris, masking a vegetable garden on the left. This garden is unusual in not being primarily forested: instead the drive opens onto a gently sculpted, largely sunny terrain with a serene flow 
punctuated by low walls and works of art. Separate areas give it a rather formal, botanical garden air. Striking sculptures include a centaur, a series of abstract plinths, an abstract, serpentine “squiggly,” and a charioteer reminiscent of ancient Celtic works. At the edge of the main terrace, a series of tiered pools is fed by water from an interesting underwater fountain. The camellia-bordered stone wall and terrace lead to herb gardens and, behind the house, a raised terrace featuring herbs and very mature shrubs - giant camellias and a very large Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick. The terrace continues behind the house to its far side, where it becomes a patio overlooking the newest project in the owners’ thirty-year development of the property: an expansive perennial bed replacing an older stand of massed azaleas and extending to the brook. Flowering trees and bushes are everywhere, and good use is made of miniature daffodils and other small points of color. Specimen plants include miniature red buckeye, native and hybrid azaleas; foliage plants include nandinas, box, and cephalotaxus.
