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Field Trip: Urban Garden Center NYC

Never have I seen so much done with so little. A garden center under the railroad tracks with no running water and no electricity? That’s Urban Garden Center in Spanish Harlem. Plants, seeds and...

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Opiary: Garden Pots from Princeton

Last year, one of the few things I liked at the Kips Bay Showhouse was Robert Canon’s planters. This year I at ICFF I liked them even more. When I saw them again this past weekend, these planters...

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An Addition-al Rant

No pictures for this one… Do you know anyone who is willing to work for a 25% of the week for free? Many in the landscape design industry do. Here’s how: they do not charge for the initial...

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Field Trip: The Litchfield Daffodils

Last Saturday, after talking about garden design at White Flower Farm, I met up with an old friend and we spent the afternoon in Litchfield, CT touring about and catching up. Our final stop of the...

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Garden Inspiration: Luciano Giubblei’s Parterre Ideas

I’ve been a member of Pinterest almost since its inception. I use it as place to store ideas both useful and random. I also explore other designer’s boards to see what inspires them and maybe...

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Garden Shop: Vintage Sculpture

I’m switching out Tuesday’s Find to Garden Shop. I scout objects and products of all types for my landscape design clients from small accessories to large sculpture. I also love the hunt. So my...

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Reeves-Reed Arboretum: 2013 Art in the Garden

This year they got it right. The 2013 installment of Art in the Garden at Reeves-Reed Arboretum features the work of sculptor Tom Holmes. The dozen or so works are placed throughout the gardens and...

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Field Trip: Leonard J. Buck Garden

Tens of thousands of years ago, a glacial lake drained leaving behind basalt outcroppings now known as Moggy Hollow in its wake. Flash forward to the 1930s, when Leonard Buck planted them and...

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A Perfect Spring Week

There are about two perfect spring weeks every year and last week was one of those. Light was bright and unfiltered by the still bare deciduous canopy. Gardens burst into bloom, the sky was the...

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Online Garden Shop: Shop Boxhill

Shop Boxhill is a new online shopping site for all things outdoors. I would be remiss if I didn’t note that it was created by my friend and fellow landscape designer Elizabeth Pryzgoda-Montgomery....

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My Wee Spring Plant Nursery

Here I go getting all plant-y again… In January I offered to share a snippet of my favorite Heuchera ‘Molly Bush’ which I’ve grown for almost 20 years back to Allen Bush who bred it to begin with....

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A Facelift for a Tudor Grand Dame

Some of my favorite landscape design projects involve American Tudors. I love the romance of these houses, their quirky details, their materials and how often they survive the wrecking ball. Many...

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Wake Up! American Garden Design Enthusiasts

Many of you know that Garden Design magazine has sadly folded. That in itself isn’t surprising given the economic climate for print publications. Print magazines have huge overhead, cumbersome lead...

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Garden Trends: Dumpster Style

If you haven’t figured it out from previous posts, I’m having a visceral and negative reaction to quaint upcycling. Please do not show me something else made out of pallets. Yuck. A good dumpster...

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Garden Designers Roundtable: Winter Inspiration

I’m totally obsessed with winter gardens. The thing is though, by spring, just like everyone else I get caught up in the sexier spring and summer seasons and completely forget to plant for winter....

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Vista and View Preservation

An article yesterday in the New York Times about a proposed and (yes) sustainably built and ‘green’ corporate headquarters that will rise above the Palisades along the Hudson River galvanized my...

Jan 21, 2013 Like

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Materials: Chicken Wire

I’m in the process of organizing things a bit differently here. So you’ll see new titles like ‘Materials’ and ‘Garden Design Details’ used more often. There’s also a new email subscription form in...

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Hubert de Givenchy and Gardens

Hubert de Givenchy is better known his couture creations for Audrey Hepurn than he is as a champion of gardens. But champion he is. Upon retirement in 1995, he was a key player in the restoration...

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A Quick Start to the New Year

The calendar year has changed again, so there’s news to report- for the next two months anyway. Change is good in my world, as is a good adventure! Beginning yesterday, I became the President Elect...

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Trend Watch: The Gilded Garden

Opulence isn’t a dirty word. After years of frugal garden and DIY design options ie. the pallet craze and other recycled madness, many (including me) are ready for a sense of luxury. Small and...

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Garden Designers Roundtable: A Fashionable Address

I’ve often said the least expensive way to spruce up or create a dramatic space is with stain and paint. It’s so inexpensive that if you don’t like it, you can afford to change it. Pair that with...

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The State of Garden Things

December is a strange month – a holiday cocktail blended from the current year, the past year, and the next. It’s hard to ignore, so I won’t. This year I have revealed my Dirty Little Garden...

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Garden to Table- Simplfy the Holiday DIY

I have so little time this year for holiday DIY projects that I’ve been looking for super simple ideas. I always lean to those that can use seeds pods, cones and whatever else I already have on...

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Garden Designers Roundtable: Plants, Memory and Dance

I have reached an age when I am able to stitch together seemingly disparate memories into a fluid life’s story. The ability to see, the kind of sight gained through years of training, observation...

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Postcard from New Orleans

I’m in New Orleans for the first time. I’m representing APLD as well as speaking at the International Pool, Spa and Patio Expo. I took the morning to walk around the Garden District for a few hours...

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An Unanticipated Slowdown

You may have heard that we had a wee storm here earlier this week. These images from the New York Times tell part of the story. There is another one to tell. Ten or twelve years ago, before the...

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My Dirty, Little Garden Secret

Yes, I have a secret. You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything about my own gardens this year. That’s because I have a dirty, little secret about them. Here it is. For the past year I...

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Garden Design Details: Wire Frame Chairs

I have a renewed interest in wire frame chairs on the patio, so I’ve created a round-up of some favorites. They can be funky, classic or wacky and whimsical. They can sit by themselves as a...

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Virtual Wanderlust…Le Pavillion de Galon

Every now and then I get sucked in. I wander off my intended path and Voila! I find something wonderful, better yet when the possibility exists to stay there. I love the gardens at Le Pavillon de...

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Field Trip: Urban Garden Center NYC

Opiary: Garden Pots from Princeton

An Addition-al Rant

Field Trip: The Litchfield Daffodils

Garden Inspiration: Luciano Giubblei’s Parterre Ideas

Garden Shop: Vintage Sculpture

Reeves-Reed Arboretum: 2013 Art in the Garden

Field Trip: Leonard J. Buck Garden

A Perfect Spring Week

Online Garden Shop: Shop Boxhill

My Wee Spring Plant Nursery

A Facelift for a Tudor Grand Dame

Wake Up! American Garden Design Enthusiasts

Garden Trends: Dumpster Style

Garden Designers Roundtable: Winter Inspiration

Vista and View Preservation

Materials: Chicken Wire

Hubert de Givenchy and Gardens

A Quick Start to the New Year

Trend Watch: The Gilded Garden

Garden Designers Roundtable: A Fashionable Address

The State of Garden Things

Garden to Table- Simplfy the Holiday DIY

Garden Designers Roundtable: Plants, Memory and Dance

Postcard from New Orleans

An Unanticipated Slowdown

My Dirty, Little Garden Secret

Garden Design Details: Wire Frame Chairs

Virtual Wanderlust…Le Pavillion de Galon

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