Flower Couture: From My Garden to My House
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… Read More
Author: Bettie Bearden Pardee
Showoffs in the Garden
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.… Read More
Renishaw House and Gardens
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… Read More
Biddulph Grange, an Historic Garden of Delight Part 2
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… Read More
Biddulph Grange, an Historic Garden of Delight
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.… Read More
Postcards From England
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… Read More
The Royce, a New Hotel Concept
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… Read More
Parterre’s Spring Garden Statement
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… Read More
Anticipating Summer 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… Read More
A Daffodil Story
“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,… Read More