Oyster Bay -- Fox Ridge

Fox Ridge is located in Oyster Bay, New York. Established in 1990, the 10-acre property features a pond, specimen trees, perennial borders, and vegetable garden on land that had been horse pasture.

The property is entered through a long driveway, lined with Acer saccharum (sugar maples) on the left with split-rail fencing beyond. On the right side of the driveway, spring bulbs bloom at the edge of woodlands. The driveway curves around to the north before reaching a circular turn-around where the road then turns south at the main gate. This is a transitional moment between the main driveway into the property and the drive up to the house. A pair of square stone pillars topped with bluestone hold white painted wood gates. Another row of Acer saccharum (sugar maples) along the left of the drive with Forsythia beyond the trees and horse jumps that are original to the property. Looking northwest, back through the gate, there is a bank of Rhododendron. As the driveway curves around, it circles a pond.

The pond is considered the focal point of the property, and includes a re-circulating waterfall. At one end of the pond, nearest to the house, are Adirondack chairs and Fagus sylvatica "Purpurea" (copper beech). In the distance are many small flowering trees including Acer rubrum (red maple), Lagerstroemia (crepe myrtle), Salix (willow) and Prunus floribunda (crabapple). Nearby is a large dome-shaped Malus floribunda (Japanese crabapple) underplanted with Muscari (grape hyacinths) An alleé of six Zelkova serrata (Japanese Zelkova) trees connects the pond to the house. Southwest of the house, is a vegetable garden enclosed by a split-rail fence with Prunus floribunda (crabapple trees) and Prunus persica (peach trees) around its perimeter.

Next to the house, there is an upper terrace, with a green painted gate, which looks onto the pool. The pool has a brick patio in a herringbone pattern and small statues at the corners of the bluestone coping. There are also large banks of Rhododendron in the background. Another large field with banks of Rhododendrons and a large perennial border to the south of the house. In the spring, two of these beds are full of flowering bulbs.

Persons associated with the garden's design: Innocenti and Webel (landscape architect, 1980s -1990s), Keith Kroeger and Associates (architect, 1990s), Ed Stein (builder, 1990s), Tony Lepsis and Brian Whitney (garden design, 2008-2018).