While building a home was something we said we’d never undertake, creating Parterre proved one of the most surprising and satisfying experiences. Inspired by this adventure, I committed myself wholeheartedly…
We’re heading into spring and with it comes the ritual of “opening the garden for the season.” I can’t believe we’ve been carrying this out for 24 years! It is the time…
Jennifer Ash Rudick and Nick Mele’s new book, Palm Beach Living, well deserves two postings. With 350 images (and 344 pages), the tome is a testimony to the ever-evolving and diverse…
It’s an exciting time to be living and making a home in Palm Beach…the old guard are refreshing and updating at the same time that the young blood are moving…
We’d had nary a drop of snow in 2023 (with the exception of two dustings). And then, lo and behold, on the eve of March 1 those big white flakes…
Spending so much time in London over the past two years I had forgetten how magical are New York’s town homes, especially on the UES (Upper East Side). When down…
Since this is the week of Valentines, I was inspired to share some gardens that whisper “romantic.” And while this word does not often come to mind when I look…
A beautiful truth that we all take for granted? Green is the most prevalent color in nature. Given this time of the year, as an example, we can really appreciate…
As I’m finalizing plant orders for the garden and booking restaurants for my April visit to England, it suddenly dawned on me that spring is just around the corner…2-3 months,…
As both a garden aficionado as well as a “woman of a certain age,” I had more than a few personal reasons to visit Rosemary Verey’s English Cotswold home last…