Clio | Diana | Euterpe | Carla | East | Butterfly | White | Topiary

Miss Hogg's elegant integration of house and garden can be most fully appreciated in the Diana Garden. She created an outdoor "room" defined by walls of evergreen yaupon hedges that separate the garden from the natural woodlands beyond. Reminiscent of Italian Renaissance gardens, the Diana Garden is a model of classical simplicity.

The evergreen hedges are highlighted by seasonal color from pink-flowering plants--magnolias in February, azaleas in March and April, and crepe myrtles in June and July--that match the color of the house. The distinctive columnar trees behind the statue are Japanese yews.

Framed by the native bayou woodlands, the Diana Garden forms a magnificent vista from the north terrace of the house. Pink flagstones pave the terrace floor. In 1927-28 these were removed from the sidewalks of downtown Houston, which were being "modernized" with concrete. A more recent use of salvaged materials can be seen in the gracious walkway along the west side of the terrace, which was created in 1968 using antique pink brick from a demolished building.

Diana, 1937
Antonio Frilli Studios, Florence, Italy,
after the Diana of Versailles
Carrara marble