My garden is a very private affair that began with specimen plants (a
snobbish legacy of 4 academic years studying plant taxonomy) and has morphed over time into a broader landscape of 4-season color, form and accessible plantings. Initially, I resisted Rocky Mountain natives aiming to create my own Hidcote Manor a la Gertrude Jekyll but today my Wisteria and Rhododendrons give way to more ecologically wise and hardy plants commonly found at your
local nursery.

I created a series of terraces from a problematic sloping lot, anchoring the floating levels visually with a gazebo, fish pond and edge plantings. Each level or "room" is a small piece of a larger mosaic and when viewed from the upper deck with Flatirons backdrop, it is breathtaking. Like me, it is a maturing garden, the boisterous
razzle-dazzle and heady concepts fading, beginning to spill over it's
edges from time to time. More reflective and ecologically simpatico
these days - it is a work in progress as always.

My garden is a very private affair - a place of refuge and restoration, compelling me to create beauty as a tonic to the world's chaos. It has
been like a willful lover, revealing itself slowly over time - a
struggle and commitment, offering up it's ephemeral gifts sparingly,
but when it does there is no greater love affair.

Susan Rigdon

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