A Tour Through the Wallace Garden
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Photo: Anna Williams
The Green Room
The boxwood parterre (a garden made of low, clipped hedges in tight patterns) is surrounded by taller hedge walls and a "doorway," suggesting a vast room.
![Dianne Wallace sitting in her garden Dianne Wallace sitting in her garden](/g/image-resizer?width=670&link=https://static.oprah.com/images/200606/omag/200606_omag_english_garden_102_442x332.jpg)
Photo: Noah Greenberg
A Place for Quiet Reflection
For Dianne Wallace, creating the garden was an intellectual as well as aesthetic pursuit: "I went through the process of educating myself before I took the giant leap and made it happen.
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Photo: Anna Williams
Transformed Space
Wallace used a garage as the setting for a Cotswold cottage garden filled with foxgloves, hollyhocks, and wisteria.
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Photo: Anna Williams
A Cut Above
A scarlet dahlia from the cutting garden makes a bold statement.
![Dianne Wallace with a watering can Dianne Wallace with a watering can](/g/image-resizer?width=670&link=https://static.oprah.com/images/200606/omag/200606_omag_english_garden_105_442x332.jpg)
Photo: Noah Greenberg
Minding Her Manors
"The house truly deserved something special," says Wallace, who was inspired in part by England's Hidcote Manor garden, designed during the same period as her 1912 home.
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Photo: Anna Williams
A Floral Border
Clematis soften the pool fence.
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Photo: Anna Williams
Peaceful Purple
Wallace avoided hot colors like fuchsia and yellow almost everywhere, preferring restful blues, whites, and purples, as in the salvia border surrounding the pool.
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Photo: Anna Williams
Garden Goddess
When work began on the new garden, Wallace's husband surprised her with a statue of Diana the huntress.
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The Perfect Mix
A window box in the cottage garden is planted each year with a mix of lysimachia, ivy, phlox, and dahlias.
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Photo: Anna Williams
By Any Other Name…
Is there anything as classically beautiful as an old-fashioned rose?
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Grand Scheme
This schematic shows the layout of the Wallace garden, replete with hedge-walled "rooms," stylish allées, and cottagey borders—all surrounding a sizable great lawn.
![Grassy path between hawthorn trees Grassy path between hawthorn trees](/g/image-resizer?width=670&link=https://static.oprah.com/images/200606/omag/200606_omag_english_garden_112_442x332.jpg)
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The Road Not Taken
The hawthorn allée—a grassy path lined with trees—is planted with purple alliums, irises, and lady's mantle.
From the June 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine