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Garden Art: Glass

2013-06-13T15:35:42-04:00

all images ThinkGlass Into my email box from ThinkGlass ... and I began wondering why designers don't, indeed commission more glass objects for the garden. Light shines through it beautifully, at night it shimmers, and of course it has great reflective quaities. ThinkGlass creates custom artworks or panels from glass...

Books: A Top Designer in Italy

2013-06-11T10:48:56-04:00

I'd never heard of Cecil Ross Pinsent, but he's a designer certainly worth knowing. Pinsent was an English expatriate who lived in Italy during the first part of the 20th century, an architect and landscape designer whose clients included princesses, counts and countesses and many Anglo-Americans who lived in Italy...

New BBG Native Plant Garden

2013-06-09T00:12:00-04:00

photo: © Albert Vecerka/ESTO - BBG Native Flora Garden Expansion Opens June 12 It's been called an experiment in habitat re-creation that will unfold over time: the new, one-acre addition to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's 100-year old Native Flora Garden. A mature tree canopy in the original garden shaded out...

Plants: A Great Sight in Bloom

2013-06-07T07:12:00-04:00

click to enlarge images You may wonder why you should plant a smoke tree (Cotinus spp). I'm not sure exactly which one this is -- it's next to the parking area at the Gotelli Collection in the US National Arboretum in DC -- but I've always wanted to see it...

Art of Indoor Landscape Design

2013-06-05T16:00:33-04:00

click to enlarge images I was in DC last week and we couldn't resist a trip to the National Portrait Gallery -- our first since it reopened. The main reason to go there, of course, is to see the fab portraits and other art -- but the new Atrium --...

Classic Colonial Gardens

2013-06-02T00:12:00-04:00

click on images to enlarge I was really looking forward to my first tour of the annual "Secret Gardens of Beacon Hill" tour in Boston, but I do have to admit I was rather disappointed. Aside from the fact that most of the gardens were paved with brick and more...

Happenings June 2013

2013-05-30T07:12:00-04:00

May 31 - June 1 Great Rosarians of the World Conference, NYC & Flushing, NY East Coast Conference, "The Science Behind Sustainable Roses." May 31-June 1, Concord Museum Garden Tour, Concord, MA 24th annual tour, 7 gardens 978-369-9763 June Garden Dialogues: CA, KY, MA, MI, MO, NY, OR Garden Tours...

In the Magazines Spring-Summer

2013-05-27T07:12:00-04:00

The American Gardener May June * Profile of edible gardening expert Rosalind Creasy * Shrubs for great foliage & color * All about zinnias * My book review of Lifelong Landscape Design by Mary Palmer Dargan Fine Gardening May June * The trick to great garden gates * Plants that...

Memorial Day Rose

2013-05-25T00:12:00-04:00

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY And what better way to celebrate than with a Memorial Day Rose? This orchid pink hybrid tea was an All-America Rose Selections winner in 2004. One bloom is said to be enough to fill an entire room with its strong damask scent. It's a medium-tall, upright shrub,...

Back Soon!

2013-05-21T09:51:55-04:00

Finally made the Secret Gardens of Beacon Hill (Boston) tour this year ... Some of the window boxes were nicely designed, with combinations that worked well with the old colonial style homes. As I get back up to speed, just thought I'd leave a couple of images of some of...