Category Archives: social media

Garden Designers Roundtable: Hort Idols the Live Show!

Today I want to take a different approach (are you suprised?) to the idea of who my horticulture idols are and share how much I’ve learned from visiting the gardens I’ve seen with the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program.  Some … Read more

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LABELS: American Architecture, Garden Designers Roundtable, Gardens 21 Comments

Blogfest 2011

For the next three days I will be participating in Blogfest 2011 in New York.  It’s a behind the scenes event for design and lifestyle bloggers hosted by Kravet and Lee Joffa. Each day we will be treated to highly … Read more

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LABELS: blogging, Design, Furniture and Accessories, Gardens, magazines 1 Comment

In my Reader…Perspectives from an Italian Garden

Just when spring was warming up–it snowed this week on gardens in the  NY/NJ metropolitan area…twice.  I started dreaming about being someplace else…anywhere really.   I let Gervais de Bedee take me to his corner of Italy and on his travels … Read more

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LABELS: blogs, garden visits, Gardens, Landscape Design, Travel 4 Comments

In my Reader…Design Seeds

Just about now, in the middle of a very snowy and grey January I need a jolt of color.  For color trends and inspiration, Design Seeds is like no other. Fast, furious and beautifully curated, Jessica Colaluca creates ranges of … Read more

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LABELS: blogs, color, inspiration 5 Comments

2010 Top 5 Posts–Yours!

I’ve never done a “top”  list before.  I was interested in what everyone was here was reading so I took a look at the numbers.  As a landscape designer I’m interested in trends–self generated as well as user generated. The … Read more

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LABELS: 2010, American Architecture, Art, color, Design, fashion, Film, Garden Design, Garden Designers Roundtable, Garden Styles, Gardens, inspiration, Trends Leave a comment

In My Reader…Dailies

There’s a new fun Twitter tool that deserves a look.  It allows you to keep up without actually Tweeting.  The Daily papers are created by virtually trawling a list, a hashtag or a single Twitter stream and putting links all … Read more

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In my Reader…Slow Love Life

So many magazines that have disappeared in the past few years.  One of the ones I miss the most is House and Garden.  Dominique Browning was its editor from 2002 until 2007 when it was shuttered.  Her wonderful blog Slow … Read more

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LABELS: blogs, Design, Garden Styles, inspiration 1 Comment

Garden Designers Roundtable – Underused Plant(s)

Underused plants is a totally subjective topic based only on one person’s experience.  So bear in mind that I’m the non-plant obsessed designer of the group! I have visited many, many gardens and I’ve only seen this plant in three … Read more

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LABELS: Garden Designers Roundtable, Gardens, Heptacodium miconiodes 21 Comments

In my Reader…The Good Garden

There’s a new garden lifestyle blog in town and it’s worth a look.  The Good Garden is Sarah Kinbar’s brand new blog.  In case you don’t know, Sarah was also the Editor in Chief of Garden Design magazine for the … Read more

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LABELS: blogs, Gardens 3 Comments

On the Road Again…

Today I’m driving 6.5 hours northwest to Buffa10 to meet up with a group of people–garden bloggers in fact–who are largely unknown to me outside of their blogs or Twitter or Facebook.   I’m wondering why, in the past three … Read more

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LABELS: blogging, blogs, Garden Styles 1 Comment