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Coaching Weekend, Starring Rosecliff

And just like “that”, Coaching took over the island the weekend of August 15-17. With…

Reliving the Gilded Age: Coaching comes to Newport

Living in Newport, with its many exceptional homes, gate houses, stables and carriage houses, complemented…

Designing with Hydrangeas

Though late to bloom this year given our wet and wonky summer, these Newport signatures…

Newport’s Vistas and Viewscapes

This is a follow-on to last week’s post on “Evening at Home,” with its views…

A Newport “Evening at Home”

“On the Avenue, By the Sea, and Off the Beaten Path” well captures the spirit…

A Standout Summer Art Party

Mid-July in Newport is a merrie marathon of galas, dinners, events, dances, luncheons, and parties…

Love Letter to a Garden, Part 2

Nothing says Summer like a cutting garden! Here at Parterre where green reigns supreme…cool, always…

Love Letter to a Garden

The Newport Flower Show at the end of June always signals that the “Summer Season”…

Flower Couture: From My Garden to My House

Last December while in Paris, I revisited one of the most captivating, fanciful spots in…

Showoffs in the Garden

Today, the Newport Flower Show opens officially at Rosecliff! The three days in this idyllic…

Renishaw House and Gardens

This recent trip to England reminded me of the ever-so-true saying…”So many gardens, so little…

Biddulph Grange, an Historic Garden of Delight Part 2

As a gardener, imagine that you lived in the Victorian era when men and women…

Biddulph Grange, an Historic Garden of Delight

While only two centuries old, Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, England was a horticultural wonder of…

Postcards From England

Writing this as I sit in the perfectly named “morning room” at our comfy country…

The Royce, a New Hotel Concept

Life‘s special moments are a reason to come together! For a town that celebrates for so…