Object Details
- General
- Skye Fall is a 3.5-acre property with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and a French Normandy style white stucco house built in 1992. The current owners purchased the property in 2002 and added a new wing, driveway, entry court, rear terrace, lawn and plants in 2006. The master landscape plan emphasized the architecture with some bare white walls. The owners acquired a revised landscape plan in 2012 that added plantings to define garden rooms with a European influence. A boxwood hedge was added to enclose the west lawn, which has the best views, and a hornbeam hedge with an espaliered arch was added to screen the east side service and parking areas. A perennial and annual border on this side of the house adds spring color from allium, anemones, camassia, tulips and narcissus, punctuated with box globes and bordered and divided by low-clipped box hedges. The foundation plantings are primarily purple and white and look more sophisticated than the earlier wattle boxed herb garden. The covered terrace looks out to a meadow with magnolia and cherry blossoms in spring with an understory of narcissus and snowdrops. A stone fireplace on the terrace enables winter use. On the west side of the house a bluestone terrace has planted containers and successive arbors covered with musk roses, leading to the swimming pool. A shrub border of vitex, butterfly bush, caryopteris and lespedeza provides summer bloom. The infinity swimming pool, added in 2019, is landscaped with columnar junipers for a Mediterranean atmosphere. Another border for cutting year round was added in 2021, planted with viburnum, lilac, abelia, roses, clematis, zinnias, cleome and cosmos. A stone walkway and stairs lead to a clapboard-sided, copper roofed garden and pool house. Persons associated with the garden's design: Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architects (c. 2006) Charles J. Stick, landscape architect (2012- ).
- Photographer
- Erler, Catriona Tudor
- Landscape architect
- Stick, Charles J.
- Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architect
- Provenance
- Albemarle Garden Club
- Collection Creator
- Garden Club of America
- Place
- United States of America -- Virginia -- Albemarle -- Charlottesville
- Skye Fall (Charlottesville, Virginia)
- Topic
- Gardens -- Virginia -- Charlottesville
- Formal gardens
- Photographer
- Erler, Catriona Tudor
- Landscape architect
- Stick, Charles J.
- Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architect
- See more items in
- The Garden Club of America collection
- The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Gardens / Virginia
- 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.
- Custodial History
- The Albemarle Garden Club facilitated this submission in 2023.
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Gardens
- Identifier
- AAG.GCA, File VA549
- Type
- Archival materials
- 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.
- Scope and Contents
- 28 digital images (2012, 2016, 2020-2022) and 1 file folder.
- 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-1679327702537-1679329185952-0
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