Category Archives: Gardens

May212013
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 tools happily co-exist with dumpster dive … Read more

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  1. It’s Summer!
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LABELS: architectural salvage, folk art, Furniture and Accessories, Gardens, inspiration, vintage Leave a comment

May202013
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 were in my … Read more

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  1. Tuesday’s Find…backyard chickens
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LABELS: Furniture and Accessories, Garden Design, Gardens, New Jersey, sculpture Leave a comment

May72013
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 day was Laurel Ridge. … Read more

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LABELS: Gardens, spring Leave a comment

May62013
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 understand a little bit about … Read more

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LABELS: Creative Process, Design, Gardens, inspiration, Landscape Design 2 Comments

Apr302013
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 inaugural post for this semi-regular theme starts … Read more

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  1. Two NYC Designer Show Houses, Part 2
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LABELS: antiques, folk art, Gardens, sculpture, vintage Leave a comment

Apr292013
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 to see them all is to also … Read more

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LABELS: Art, Gardens, New Jersey 2 Comments

Apr232013
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 established what would become a world class rock … Read more

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LABELS: garden visits, Gardens, New Jersey 2 Comments

Apr222013
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 bluest of blues, and the … Read more

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  1. Fashion in the Garden…Plaid!
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LABELS: Gardens, Seasons, spring Leave a comment

Apr162013
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.  Shop Boxhill has a cool contemporary vibe with … Read more

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LABELS: Furniture and Accessories, Gardens Leave a comment

Apr152013
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.  He graciously sent … Read more

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LABELS: Gardens, Heuchera 'Molly Bush', native plants, plants 1 Comment