How Does Her Garden Grow?

I went back to Martha’s Westport garden, fully expecting to see endless rows of peonies in full bloom. When I got there, Levy, the gardener, just looked at me and shook his head. “You’re too late”. Wow, he wasn’t kidding. Everywhere I looked I saw rain wreckage. Blooms downed before they were ready, because of a really heavy rain the night before. I was so disappointed. But, as I got my camera out of the case, and started looking around with fresh expectancy, I saw the garden story the rain had created. After the shoot, I called Grayson Handy, owner of Prudence Designs, NYC — event planner and floral designer extraordinaire (and client) — to identify some of the flowers — he gave me the dirt on these colorful specimens.