It’s usually about this time that I begin photographing for my annual hydrangeas of Newport post. Looking over past entries, I’ve realized yet again that Newport’s summer flower can be… Read More

My good friends at The Garden Conservancy just put out a special publication on preserving gardens in America. In one of the articles, Mac Griswold, noted landscape historian and author,… Read More

As we move into our 23rd year in our Newport home, I thought you might enjoy a bit of histoire on its past. Parterre, taking its name from the delineated… Read More

Perhaps I put “the cart before the horse” in posting the rose chain before a story on Parterre’s roses overall, but I was just so excited about their beauty this… Read More

I’m so excited about the prospects for summer ’21 that I’m going to celebrate by “chic-ing up” the feature image for this post! Knowing how much we are all besotted… Read More

With a Memorial Day weekend that rained 24/7 I had long hours to sit by the fire and re-read some of my cherished garden books. The perspectives that I picked… Read More

Since my English travel plans have been delayed until September, I have been living vicariously through my fellow Instagrammer’s luscious images. The next best thing to being there! And if… Read More

Recently, I was scrolling through the 30,000+ images on my phone, and actually caught myself gasping at pictures that I had seen over and over and taken for granted. How… Read More