Of all the lovely gardens I visited as part of the McLaughlin Foundation garden tour in late July (see Inspired and Inspiring: The Primozich Garden), one of my favorites was the garden of Xuan Xanh Laurie, high on a ridge in Maine’s Oxford Hills.
In a variety of garden areas surrounding a 1795 house with attached barn, Xuan Xanh has managed to create a garden that is simultaneously rustic and manicured by combining informal and formal garden elements with a rustic backdrop of farm buildings and with a rural setting that includes rolls of hay in nearby fields and breathtaking views of mountains beyond.
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Xuan Xanh grows vegetables as well as flowers, but I was drawn to the flowering perennials and shrubs, including this beautiful hydrangea growing near the barn. x 
The garden is made up of a number of discrete planting areas, including this display of daylilies that greets visitors at the top of the driveway … and this cottage-style garden at the front of the house. 
But it was the gardens at the back of the house, shown in the top photo, that took my breath away. This is where Xuan Xanh’s artful combinations of informal and formal elements are used to spectacular effect.
… As in the way that this rose garden with its formal statuary is set against a rustic fence and woods. x
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… Or the way that this canopy of trees frames both a beautiful mixed border and the mountain view beyond.
I was also intrigued by the way this garden creates the illusion of manicured lawns with a mowed 3’ wide swath around the edges of the flower beds while leaving the rest of the grass long and rough. In this way, gardens seem to flow seamlessly into farm fields.
This was the last garden I visited on the day of the tour. It provided not only a wonderful note of beauty and peace on which to end the day, but it also left me with food for thought about how I might combine the rustic setting of my own garden in the woods with the kind of neat somewhat manicured aesthetic that most appeals to me.
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