Inspiring Garden Design: A Lake Forest Garden Mecca
To refer to the North Shore of Chicago as a “a garden mecca” is an…
Inspiring Garden Design: Pools in the Landscape
In this winter 2021 series of “Inspiring Garden Design,” I’m including a topic that on…
Inspiring Garden Design: Before and After the Snow
It’s March, the sun is promising to shine for a whole week and all thoughts…
Inspiring Garden Design: Revealing Lessons in the Snow
These past three weeks have been a flurry (excuse the pun) of one snowfall after…
Inspiring Garden Design: Remembering A Glorious Private Garden Trip to England
Photo Credit: Margot Shaw of Flower Magazine When Margot Shaw, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flower…
Inspiring Garden Design: Green Animals Topiary Garden
Thirty minutes “up island” from Newport, but another world apart, the Green Animals Topiary Garden…
Inspiring Garden Design: An Exquisite English-style Creation
“The owner’s first mixed border was developed in the pergola garden with the ornamental Bradford…
Inspiring Garden Design: A New Orleans Courtyard Garden
Traveling (and gathering with friends) are the two pleasures that I miss the most in…
Inspiring Garden Design: Chic-ing Up Parterre’s Solarium
Each winter plays out a bit differently at Parterre…some years I may be traveling, or…
Travels with the Parterre Bench
Since travel plans have been so curtailed this past year, I’m now going to treat…
A Writer’s Lair: Honoring a Literary Heritage
Welcome to 2021! Perhaps for you, as it is for me, reminiscing is part of…
A Parterre Christmas
Every Christmas has its signature. This year, not knowing what draconian measure or which “pause”…
Bedecked and Bedazzled: Christmas at The Breakers
What is more joy-filled than a fifteen foot Christmas tree of live, brilliant red poinsettias?!…
Past Christmases at Parterre
In spite of 2020 being an “annus horribilis” (to quote Queen Elizabeth) we’ve made it…