Watery Visions: Contrasting villages near Cypress Gardens offer lake and river, ballfields and pools

Large bedrooms are a spotlight of the Jackson sales model from Beazer at Cypress Manor, a new neighborhood in Spring Grove Plantation (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

The Spring Grove swimming pool, which includes a cabana, serves the entire community off Cypress Gardens Road (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

This home in Barony at Spring Grove Plantation touts fiber-cement siding with brick accents (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

An entrance sign to Pimlico Plantation notes that the property dates to 1752 (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

Tall oaks overhang a brick home in Pimlico, located about two miles northeast of Spring Grove (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

Maroon shutters mark this house at Cypress Manor (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

The Abbey from Lennar offers a mix of one- and two-story homes at Spring Grove Plantation (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

Planter’s Trace is one of more than a half-dozen enclaves in Spring Grove (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

Tall grass grows along Lake Hastie at Pimlico, which also borders on the west branch of the Cooper River (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

A brick and white-framed residence is on a large lot at Pimlico in rural Berkeley County (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

This bathroom in the Beazer sales model at Cypress Manor in Spring Grove showcases a large counter and wooden cabinets (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

A variety of homes are in Barony, a newer subdivision within Spring Grove Plantation a few miles north of Goose Creek (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

A frisky cat walks along the driveway of this home at Carriage Run, located in Spring Grove Plantation (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).

A two-level house in naturally styled Pimlico neighborhood is modeled like a cabin in the woods (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).