The landscape appears to be orchestrated around this late 19th-century Italian hand-carved stone urn. Encircled by impatiens,
limestone edging, and a grass panel, it is the focal point of the garden entrance.
A shapely garden urn set in relief against a green hedge, earthy terra-cotta jars lending a ruddy hue to a Mediterranean garden, a baroque fountain accentuating a formal parterre. There is something captivating about encountering a well-wrought ornament in a garden setting.
"A garden -- whether classical, traditional, or naturalistic -- needs a focal point, and garden ornaments provide that," says Dallas landscape architect Paul Fields of Lambert Landscape Company. "They tie the landscape back to the house; they give the garden personality; and when the pieces are antique or classically inspired, they invest the garden, however new, with a more mature feeling and give it the aura of being established." Fields and antiques dealer Lynette Proler of Proler Garden Antiques have collaborated on a series of fabulous gardens in Dallas.
Recently Fields was commissioned to create a new terraced entrance for a fantasy-laden Highland Park garden that unfurls around a river walk. Both house and garden are Mediterranean-inspired, so only a classically styled piece would do. Proler found a hand-carved 19th-century Italian urn of Vicenza stone whose rounded forms and acorn finial mimic the shaped boxwood hedge and topiary planted behind it. Perched on a pedestal, the urn is just right for the space.
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