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Renishaw House and Gardens

June 12, 2025

This recent trip to England reminded me of the ever-so-true saying…”So many gardens, so little time.” And how very happy I am that I opted for a new part of…

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Biddulph Grange, an Historic Garden of Delight Part 2

June 5, 2025

As a gardener, imagine that you lived in the Victorian era when men and women were in the enviable position of having a wealth of new and totally unknown plant…

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Biddulph Grange, an Historic Garden of Delight

May 29, 2025

While only two centuries old, Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, England was a horticultural wonder of its time, benefiting from the exciting possibility of global plant exploration in the mid-19th century.…

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Postcards From England

May 22, 2025

Writing this as I sit in the perfectly named “morning room” at our comfy country house hotel, Fischer’s Baslow Hall, in Derbyshire. With its well-tended gardens to be enjoyed through…

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The Royce, a New Hotel Concept

May 15, 2025

Life‘s special moments are a reason to come together! For a town that celebrates for so many reasons, and in so many ways, a timely hospitality concept has just opened in…

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Parterre’s Spring Garden Statement

May 8, 2025

The first trees on the property to leaf out or bloom, this variety, Cherry ‘Hally Jolivette,’ produces the most exquisite small, single blossoms in a soft shell pink, clustered together…

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Anticipating Summer 2025

May 1, 2025

Hurray! It’s the Merry Month of May! Spring is popping (after a too cold, too windy winter). And I’m off mid month to England. But when I return this is…

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A Daffodil Story

April 24, 2025

“And then there was the year we put the Parterre Bench along the daffodil-studded brook…” As we like to say, there’s always a Story in Newport, or in this case,…

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