Six Model Homes Flank Formal Southern Garden

Six Model Homes Flank Formal Southern Garden

CIVIL WAR ERA GARDEN: This is an artist’s view of an ante-bellum garden more than 300 feet long that will be seen after mid- September by persons inspecting six model houses at the new North Campus Heights Sub-division.
 

Six Model Homes Flank Formal Southern Garden
 

It’s Attraction At New Subdivision To Be Opened Soon
 

A large ante-bellum garden found in the South during the! Civil War period will be an unusual highlight at six exhibit homes when they are opened about mid-September at the North Campus Heights Subdivision.
 

It is being called Bromley by its builder, Rose-Hill of Detroit, which will construct a total of 240 houses in the subdivision. It is located at the city’s northeast rim at Plymouth and Nixon Rds.
 

The formal garden is more than 300 feet long and has a sunken mall with benches, a raised, circular reflection pool with fountain, plus lush landscaping, plantings and flowers. A graceful pergola, which will be laced with seasonal blooms, is at one end of the mall. It is flanked by Norway maples.

Enclosing the mall area is a three-foot hedge of compact winged euonymus that turn from green to brilliant red with colder temperatures.
 

The garden and a specially constructed sales and exhibit building are being set up at an estimated cost of $60,000.
 

The garden is gained from the exhibit building and a patio of colonial brick and redwood 2x4s laid out in a large-scale checkerboard pattern.
 

Rose-Hill and S. Brooks Barron, the subdivision’s developer, commissioned the Northland Landscaping Co. of Detroit to create the garden attraction.
 

“We chose this particular theme because of high interest in the Civil War Centennial,” Howard Binkow, Rose-Hill spokesman, said. “To our knowledge no one has yet undertaken such a project.”