Embellishing Autumn in Newport
While it is the majestic beech trees for which Newport is so renowned, come this…
A Fashionable Garden: the Texas Rose Festival
I may not have made it to England for garden tripping this year (or last)…
Fall Decorating 2021: Part 2
Last week’s blog “Fall Decorating 2021: Part 1” highlighted fall decorations for the outdoors, including…
Fall Decorating 2021: Part 1
The weather has been so pristine and sparkling that I was beyond inspired to start…
A Tuscan Retreat: Castello di Reschio
Tranquil…Secluded…Peaceful. Atop a tree-shrouded series of hills that had once been its own independent fiefdom…
Anticipating Fall
It’s October 12th and I’m off to Tyler, Texas for their annual (and much-celebrated) Rose…
Parterre’s Bountiful ‘Limelight’ Hydrangeas
Fall came very early this year, seemingly the first of August. Having been spared the…
Confessions of a Gardener
A perennial favorite, this is the blog where I “dish the dirt,” or rather, confess…
Newport’s Clarendon Court
Clarendon Court (1904) represents everything the words elegant, classical and sublime bring to mind. In…
16 Signature Images from Newport’s Private Gardens
It’s been a somewhat interesting summer in Newport. While the town seemed busier than ever,…
Provence: Le Mas des Poiriers
Photo Credit: Jamie Beck During this bridge month of late August into mid-September, when the…
Pampered Pets of Private Newport, 2021
I take great delight in coincidences. For example, this annual blog which usually caps off…
Sonnenhof: The Evolution of a Garden
In my 2016 blog on Sonnenhof “Designing with Stone,” I closed with…”The owners’ decisions and…
Landscaping with Hydrangeas
It’s usually about this time that I begin photographing for my annual hydrangeas of Newport…