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Rooms to Grow: A supremely long lot stretches behind the 1899 Tradd Street house that Susan and Gene Massamillo purchased six years ago. The Connecticut transplants called upon landscape designer Sheila Wertimer to transform the overgrown backyard—including a back portion fenced-off and forgotten decades prior—into a series of three unique “rooms.” Susan has since added plenty of her own touches, including containers full of succulents inspired by those she saw in England’s Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
