For the gardens, the clients were clear about their desire for a rational, geometric layout. The design incorporates a motor court of crushed oyster shells and a grid of London plane trees, interspersed with clipped American boxwood. An elliptical garden serves as a transition to the rear landscape, comprised of manicured boxwood parterres, large perennial borders, a dining allée of pleached linden trees and a swimming pool surrounded by a cast-stone terrace.