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Inspiring Garden Design: An Exquisite English-style Creation
February 6, 2025
“The owner’s first mixed border was developed in the pergola garden with the ornamental Bradford pear hedge as a backdrop. Her favorite colors–pink, fuchsia, lavender, and blue–can be seen in…

Inspiring Garden Design: 8 Tips for Creating a Sunken Garden
January 30, 2025
It is perhaps difficult to believe that behind this formal chateau (above) is a sunken garden that in its simplicity provides the lessons for creating your own version. But indeed…

Inspiring Garden Design: Spring at Hidcote
January 23, 2025
Looking back on these images has me thinking “how lucky was I?!” Hidcote had been on my “faves list” for so many years when I made the decision for a…

Inspiring Garden Design: Parco Sherrer
January 16, 2025
Aaaah Winter…sitting by the fire, finalizing plans for spring trips to England, etc. It’s always difficult to remember that, in just 2 1/2 months, the ritual of “opening the garden…

Louis Vuitton: the Trunk Building
January 9, 2025
I’m kicking off this first New Year post with a subject that hints at how exciting my hopes are for 2025…think big; don’t hold back; out with the old, in…

2024 in Pictures
January 2, 2025
As we bid adieu to 2024, I’m carrying out a fond tradition…looking back via Instagram at some memorable moments of the past year. If you follow Private Newport on this…

Merry Christmas from Newport
December 26, 2024
From our home to yours…may the peace, love, and beauty of this season be with you throughout the New Year.

Christmas at the Breakers
December 19, 2024
What an unusual December treat for 2024…spending a week in Paris, captivated by the decorations, bright lights, and historic architecture…and returning to Newport to enjoy, with houseguests, one of our town’s historic…