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Love Letter to a Garden, Part 2

July 10, 2025

Nothing says Summer like a cutting garden! Here at Parterre where green reigns supreme…cool, always in good taste, soothing to the eye, and supportive of the design tenets of a…

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Love Letter to a Garden

July 3, 2025

The Newport Flower Show at the end of June always signals that the “Summer Season” has begun (though the earlier weeks of the month can make one wonder). And here…

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Flower Couture: From My Garden to My House

June 26, 2025

Last December while in Paris, I revisited one of the most captivating, fanciful spots in a city of many elegant shops…Ladurée on rue Royale. Could I have imagined then that…

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Showoffs in the Garden

June 19, 2025

Today, the Newport Flower Show opens officially at Rosecliff! The three days in this idyllic oceanside setting are a much-anticipated event on the summer calendar… June 20th to 22nd, 2025.…

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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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