A Terraced Garden in Vermont

This terraced landscape in Vermont flows from a high perch on a contemporary home’s second-story viewing deck through a grassy play space with a fire pit terrace, past mown fields to a swimming pond with a small lake house and on through a wet meadow to a beaver pond beyond. Here, a lush perennial bed overflowing with color hugs the side of the garage. In the background are apple trees and a terraced hillside vegetable garden surrounded by a solar-powered electric fence to keep out the deer and porcupines. Birdhouses decorate the fenceposts. The perennials include Rudbeckia, Buddleia, Shasta daisies, and Amsonia. Photo by Susan Teare.