Five Homes for Sale with Formal Gardens

Featuring Tim Davis & Peter Huffine's Mecox Bay Waterfront listing in Water Mill, The Hamptons.

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Listowel, Water Mill, Mecox Bay, New York, US, $40m

Where In the waterside hamlet of Water Mill in the Hamptons. JFK airport is 35 minutes by helicopter.

What A 12,000 sq ft, shingle-style house, built in 2008. The property has five bedrooms, a two-storey library, pool and private jetty on Mecox Bay.

Why Wave goodbye to florist bills. The seven-acre grounds, designed by US landscape architect Quincy Hammond and inspired by the likes of Gertrude Jekyll and Harold Peto, include a cut flower garden stocked with large groupings of white catmint, German irises, phlox, lilies and peonies. Five varieties of white roses grow in a separate sunken garden.

Who Corcoran, corcoran.com, tel: +1 631 283 7300