A longtime relationship built on unwavering trust fosters an expansive New Orleans garden in a posh neighborhood and showcases the city’s subtropical appeal—especially as summer gives way to fall.
A serendipitous encounter very early in her career yielded the project of a lifetime for landscape architect Kim Alvarez. Her design, with bold tropical trees and traditional Southern plantings, gives the home in one of New Orleans’ most sought-after neighborhoods wide appeal.
Across from Audubon Park in the Uptown neighborhood, Audubon Place is a street lined with grand mansions, most built at the turn of the century. Kim’s opportunity to create a New Orleans garden at such a wonderful property came on a chance meeting about 25 years ago with a friend who was a photographer for a local magazine. “He asked me if I had any gardens that could be published. I came up with a garden,” says Kim, who now works for Landscape Images. As fortune would have it, the Audubon Place homeowners saw the article and contacted Kim about doing their yard, a relationship that has grown through the years.
