Secret Garden
Suzy Moore loved the challenge of creating a welcoming but formal city garden ablaze in color.
Written By Kathy Hudson
Photography By Celia Pearson.
As their annual Easter egg hunt approaches, Annapolis residents Suzy and Don Moore once again ready their elegant city gardens for the onslaught of their assorted nieces, nephews, and grandchildren—including placing a towel at the ready for the one who inevitably falls into the fish pond. The creation of the ornamental spaces behind their 1875 Italianate Victorian home began not long after they bought the historic house in 1998. But the existing garden lacked an open, inviting space that Suzy was looking for. “It was lovely, but, from the house, it looked small because it was broken up with hedges,” Suzy remembers. “I knew immediately what I wanted: a formal, city garden.”
