The Newport Flower Show…What to Wear?
The “unofficial” start of the Newport Summer Season is the Friday opening night party for…
12 Ideas to Borrow from St. Louis Gardens
There is inspiration in every garden, if perhaps only as confirmation, but “visiting and viewing”…
At Home on the Upper East Side
With my speaking and booksigning travels, I don’t make it down to New York, one…
Early Spring in Central Park
Jonathan and I moved to New York in the mid-eighties, living on the West Side…
Among the Daffodils…the Parterre Bench
Given the response to last spring’s blog on my friend Alison and Steve Walk’s property…
The Vias of Palm Beach
My spring trip to Palm Beach was a bit shorter than anticipated, but while there…
The Little Black Dress of Flower Urns
Many gardeners have a favorite “go to” container for our flower arrangements. They’re like an…
Exceptional Greenhouses
An “Inspiring Garden Design” series would not be complete without a nod to greenhouses…specifically those…
Inspiring Garden Design: An Olmsted Japanese Garden
Appropriately named, Wildacre occupies only a little more than a narrow acre of granite outcroppings…
Inspiring Garden Design: A Daffodil Landscape in Dallas
Timing, as they say, is everything in life…especially when it comes to gardens. A lovely…
Charleston in Early Spring
It was a glorious sunny day in Charleston last week but unseasonably cool and breezy.…
Inspiring Garden Design: Italian Sensibilities in Huntsville, Alabama
As a garden aficionado, nothing gives me greater pleasure, nor inspires more anticipation, than visiting…
Chasing Away the Winter Doldrums
Waking on a gray, rainy day two weeks ago, I found myself yearning for a…