Sarah Trumbore Designed Her Home Garden to Be a True Family Hangout

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Pink zinnia, verbena, and lavender. / Photo by Jared Kuzia / Styling by Alisa Kapinos/Style Productions

Hidden behind the garage of Sarah DiMascio’s Chestnut Hill Tudor Revival is some thing beautifully unexpected—a wonderful profusion of blooming flowers, herbs of all kinds, and far more than enough vegetables to share the bounty with neighbors (and the occasional squirrel). The backyard, pea stone patio, and 3 lifted beds offer DiMascio, her husband, Joe sons Logan, six, and Jack, 3 and a puppy dog named Finley a tranquil, secluded space to chill out and entertain, as properly as get their arms filthy.

The seed of an plan was initial planted in the interior designer’s head when the few purchased the home in 2016. DiMascio, whose style firm ST Studio is based mostly in Chestnut Hill, required someplace to increase greens, so she and her partner put in two modest, elevated beds in the yard. Sometime afterwards, they hired John Haven of LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects to establish a learn prepare for the area. After observing the beds, he “ran with the notion for a reducing garden”—a location to expand bouquets meant for bouquets and table arrangements, suggests DiMascio (who makes use of the surname Trumbore professionally).

Inside designer Sarah DiMascio stands in her slicing backyard garden wherever she grows flowers, herbs, and vegetables, like pink zinnia, verbena, and lavender. Crabapple trees and David Austin roses populate the back again of the back garden. / Picture by Jared Kuzia / Styling by Alisa Kapinos/Type Productions

The family enjoys eating on the terrace, situated on the other side of the yard from the reducing backyard, or in the screened porch at the rear of it. / Photo by Jared Kuzia / Styling by Alisa Kapinos/Style Productions

But DiMascio didn’t want to use the room exclusively for gardening: She wished her family to cling out there, also. “It turned the location bookend to the total design and style,” Haven claims, drawing people away from the seating terrace off the again of the home. “It’s on the loop of circulation around the residence, so there is a great deal of motion and passage by means of the garden.”

Phil Mastroianni Corp. Landscape Development fenced in the 28-by-42-foot house and surrounded it with boxwood hedges. In the spring, daffodil and tulip bulbs that ended up buried just before the wintertime in the new cedar beds bloom first. Then, DiMascio, with assistance from her two sons (who like to dig around in the dust), starts planting tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, snapdragons, cosmos, and zinnias.

Absolutely nothing delivers the designer extra pleasure than retreating to the garden—“I’ll provide my laptop computer out there and my espresso and do some perform,” DiMascio says, “or we’ll go to look at the boys participate in with their trucks in the pea stone”—but beautiful bouquets of bouquets developed just outdoors her back again door truly feel like icing on the cake.

DiMascio claims she obtained her inspiration from cookbook author Ina Garten’s backyard garden in East Hampton. The two the finials and the lifted beds developed by the landscape contractor are built of cedar. / Image by Jared Kuzia / Styling by Alisa Kapinos/Design Productions

The potting bench, manufactured by DiMascio’s father, was modeled immediately after a single she observed on line. “I improved the proportions a little bit so it could fit under the eaves of the garage,” suggests the designer, who painted it “Essex Green” by Benjamin Moore cut with 90 percent black, so it’s pretty dim. / Photograph by Jared Kuzia / Styling by Alisa Kapinos/Type Productions

Interior Designer
ST Studio

Landscape Architect
LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects

Landscape Contractor
Phil Mastroianni Corp. Landscape Construction