This historic stone winery-turned-residence inspires the gardens’ design vocabulary evoking the feel of a romantic south of France retreat. This garden is a series of ‘rooms’. Each ‘room’ of the garden has a collection of plants suitable to the micro-climate based on the adjacent trees.

The backbone of the landscape palette is the existing olives, palms, oaks and redwoods, with locally harvested stone as the primary material used in constructing the home, garden walls, paths, fountains and spa. Following a row of ancient olive trees and a flanking tall grass meadow with specimen oaks, the drive passes through a wooden gate secured to stone piers terminating at a gravel courtyard. Additional elements of this magical landscape include vegetable beds, a painter’s studio, spa, a secret garden and the rose walk.