Linda Andros has always been fond of plants. Some of her most vivid memories from childhood are the scent of grandmother’s rose garden and the size of each flower that bloomed there. The roses were often considered the largest in the state, and that’s something Linda will never forget.
Roses were part of Linda’s life, even when she and her husband, Bill Avery, moved to England for a few years. They inherited a garden along with their home there, and Linda gleaned helpful advice from the Italian gardener who tended it. When they moved back to the States, one of her English friends sent her the first rose bushes—David Austin varieties—for her new home in the Northeast.
Today, roses are everywhere on the grounds of the couple’s 1927 Tudor. There are climbers, shrubs and a long parade of some of her favorites in front of the pool house.
Photographs reprinted with permission from Gardens at First Light by Stacy Bass. © Stacy Bass and at home Books.