A Garden With Bluegrass Roots

Malvern, a classic Georgian manor, was designed by architect Ogden Codman, Jr., who also created Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s Breakers in Newport, RI.

A central lawn.

The reflecting pool captures the changing moods of the sky.

Homeowners, Babs and Lee Robinson.

A seventeenth-century Spanish wellhead tucked into an alcove.

Two of four parterres that feature boxwoods, English ivy, and limestone statuary.

Malver’s brick-walled front entrance.

A wrought-iron gateway frames the pool.

Purple allium.

An eighteenth-century English armillary sphere overlooking the bluffs.

The rose-covered pergola and gardener’s cottage beyond.