Baltimore -- Hidehaven

Object Details

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb64c95bd9c-227f-49db-8e24-5a940dba11db

General

Hidehaven is set in 1/3 (8049 sq. ft.) of an acre on a leafy, winding side street in the Homeland section of northern Baltimore City in the Greater Homeland Historic District. Homeland was established in 1925 and laid out by the Olmsted Brothers design firm. The garden surrounds a two-bedroom, yellow, two-story brick, and clapboard house (built in 1942), set in a long, narrow, rectangular lot. The current owner purchased the property in 1999. A small, front garden, with a flagstone path leading from the street into the garden, features a grassy area bordered on three sides with a curved shade garden planted with Japanese maples, Japanese white pines, a western Limber pine, a Himalayan pine, perennials, ground covers, grasses, and small and mid-size boulders. Stone paths wind around either side of the house into the larger back garden. Alongside the right of the house are garden beds on either side of a path, planted with dry-loving plants (herbs, annuals, and perennials). The path leads to the main garden through an arbor covered with chocolate vine. The focus of the main garden is a grass oval surrounded by a boxwood hedge, providing a place for tranquil observation and contemplation of the surrounding plants, butterflies, and birds. The garden's many highlights include a lily pond and fountain with a stone surround created in 1999, four lampposts original to the garden, a dry stone wall, Baltimore cobble street pavers acquired to line both the front and back lawn area, wood trellis panels attached along the picket fences on either side of the garden for climbing roses, a small blue-stone patio with numerous pots and containers planted with succulents and annuals, Amish birdhouses, and small stone animal sculptures scattered throughout. In the winter, the owner maintains a greenhouse with LED gro-lights in her garage for wintering begonias, agaves, hanging baskets, and other fragile plants she wants to preserve. From the outset, the owner wanted no straight lines in her garden. Curved garden beds around the grass oval create a flow to the eclectic plant-driven design she adapted from Scott Ogden (Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit), with layers of trees, shrubbery, vines, perennials, bulbs, native plants, and annual The most prominent aspect of the overall planting scheme is what the owner describes as her "mini-arboretum:" numerous (17) evergreens (including dwarf conifers, a weeping white pine, an Atlas cedar, two weeping blue spruce), and small deciduous trees (including a Chinese elm shading the patio, a metasequoia, a weeping bald cypress, crape myrtles, a smoke tree, a weeping purple beech, two styrax, three redbuds, a katsura, American pink dogwood, a chamaecyparis, a gingko, a tri-color beach) were added to an existing sycamore and a crabapple, with the aim of providing year-round interest. A major challenge for the owner is keeping order and harmony with what she describes as "excessive" planting (she never met a plant she didn't like). She artfully controls color and meticulously prunes and shapes throughout the year. Another hurdle has been adapting the garden to more sun, from 75% shade to 15%, as the original tree canopy was lost to wind and age.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Diana Jacquot (1999-), and Mike Shertzer (landscape designer of Harvest Moon Landscapes, 1999-).

Photographer

Shea, Kathryn

Robinson, Barbara

Owner

Jacquot, Diana

Landscape designer

Shertzer, Mike

Provenance

Green Spring Valley Garden Club

Collection Creator

Garden Club of America

Place

Hidehaven (Baltimore, Maryland)

United States of America -- Maryland -- Baltimore County

Topic

Gardens -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Butterfly gardens

Container gardening

Native plant gardening

Gardening in the shade

Water gardens

Gardening to attract wildlife

Provenance

The Green Spring Valley Garden Club facilitated the 2022 garden documentation.

Photographer

Shea, Kathryn

Robinson, Barbara

Owner

Jacquot, Diana

Landscape designer

Shertzer, Mike

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Maryland

Sponsor

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Archival Repository

Archives of American Gardens

Identifier

AAG.GCA, File MD385

Type

Archival materials

Digital images

Collection Citation

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Collection Rights

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Bibliography

This property is featured in "Cutting Corners" by Kathy Hudson, published in Baltimore Style, August 19, 2008.

Genre/Form

Digital images

Scope and Contents

35 digital images (2019).

Collection Restrictions

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Record ID

ebl-1649866503003-1649868048651-0