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Ramblings of a New American Gardener
UncategorizedgoldenDecember 21, 2013Baptisia, Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, Eryngium yuccafolium, Frank Gehry, Kathryn Gustafson, Lurie Garden, Millenium Park, Piet Oudolf, Pritzker Pavillion, Renzo Piano, Silphium laciniatum, Urban space23 Comments

More than the Lurie Garden

UncategorizedgoldenDecember 21, 2013Baptisia, Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, Eryngium yuccafolium, Frank Gehry, Kathryn Gustafson, Lurie Garden, Millenium Park, Piet Oudolf, Pritzker Pavillion, Renzo Piano, Silphium laciniatum, Urban space23 Comments
More than the Lurie Garden
UncategorizedgoldenDecember 06, 2013Color, Fog, Moisture, Rhone Street Garden, Scott Weber, The garden at Federal Twist, Weather36 Comments

In praise of weather

UncategorizedgoldenDecember 06, 2013Color, Fog, Moisture, Rhone Street Garden, Scott Weber, The garden at Federal Twist, Weather36 Comments
In praise of weather
UncategorizedgoldenNovember 29, 2013Gilles Clement, Lynden B- Miller, Michael Gordon, NYBG Native Plant Garden, Peterborough, The Brine Garden, The High Line, The Third Landscape18 Comments

On the High Line: The Third Landscape with Gilles Clement and Michael Gordon

UncategorizedgoldenNovember 29, 2013Gilles Clement, Lynden B- Miller, Michael Gordon, NYBG Native Plant Garden, Peterborough, The Brine Garden, The High Line, The Third Landscape18 Comments
On the High Line:  The Third Landscape with Gilles Clement and Michael Gordon
UncategorizedgoldenNovember 21, 2013Amalia Robredo, autumn garden, brown13 Comments

Brown is many colors

UncategorizedgoldenNovember 21, 2013Amalia Robredo, autumn garden, brown13 Comments
Brown is many colors
UncategorizedgoldenNovember 16, 201318 Comments

Foggy morning

UncategorizedgoldenNovember 16, 201318 Comments
Foggy morning
UncategorizedgoldenNovember 14, 2013autumn garden, Change in scale, Immersion in the garden, Inula, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Joe Pye Weed, Rudbeckia maxima, seasonal change, Silphium laciniatum, Silphium perfoliatum, Silphium terebinthinaceum12 Comments

The season turns: first light frosts

UncategorizedgoldenNovember 14, 2013autumn garden, Change in scale, Immersion in the garden, Inula, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Joe Pye Weed, Rudbeckia maxima, seasonal change, Silphium laciniatum, Silphium perfoliatum, Silphium terebinthinaceum12 Comments
The season turns:  first light frosts
UncategorizedgoldenNovember 07, 2013Black bamboo, Brooklyn garden, Cotinus 'Velvet Cloak, Panicum 'Cloud Nine', Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant', Urban garden12 Comments

Late garden in Brooklyn

UncategorizedgoldenNovember 07, 2013Black bamboo, Brooklyn garden, Cotinus 'Velvet Cloak, Panicum 'Cloud Nine', Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant', Urban garden12 Comments
Late garden in Brooklyn
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 24, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days, Michael Tortorello, Reflecting pool, The New York Times28 Comments

Is a change in the air?

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 24, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days, Michael Tortorello, Reflecting pool, The New York Times28 Comments
Is a change in the air?
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 18, 2013Michael Tortorello, New York Times, The Good-for-Nothing Garden69 Comments

Filling in the blanks

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 18, 2013Michael Tortorello, New York Times, The Good-for-Nothing Garden69 Comments
Filling in the blanks
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 16, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days, Michael Tortorello, The garden at Federal Twist, The New York Times, Tovah Martin, William Martin41 Comments

The Good-for-Nothing Garden

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 16, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days, Michael Tortorello, The garden at Federal Twist, The New York Times, Tovah Martin, William Martin41 Comments
The Good-for-Nothing Garden
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 14, 2013Bruce Gangewar, Garden Conservancy Open Days, Garden sculpture, John McDivit, New York Times, Paxson Hill Farm, Randy Harris, Susan Cohan, The garden at Federal Twist19 Comments

Mobile and mobility

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 14, 2013Bruce Gangewar, Garden Conservancy Open Days, Garden sculpture, John McDivit, New York Times, Paxson Hill Farm, Randy Harris, Susan Cohan, The garden at Federal Twist19 Comments
Mobile and mobility
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 10, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days, The garden at Federal Twist9 Comments

Hold the Date - Federal Twist will be open for the Garden Conservancy Open Days on Saturday, Oct. 19

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 10, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days, The garden at Federal Twist9 Comments
Hold the Date -  Federal Twist will be open for the Garden Conservancy Open Days on Saturday, Oct. 19
UncategorizedgoldenSeptember 18, 2013Astilboides tabularis, Brooklyn garden, Carex muskingumensis, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, Darmera peltata, Ligularia japonica, Panicum 'Cloud Nine', Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant', Urban garden33 Comments

Toddler Garden in Brooklyn

UncategorizedgoldenSeptember 18, 2013Astilboides tabularis, Brooklyn garden, Carex muskingumensis, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, Darmera peltata, Ligularia japonica, Panicum 'Cloud Nine', Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant', Urban garden33 Comments
Toddler Garden in Brooklyn
UncategorizedgoldenSeptember 12, 201320 Comments

Think jangly, heterogeneous confusion of a riot ...

UncategorizedgoldenSeptember 12, 201320 Comments
Think jangly, heterogeneous confusion of a riot ...
UncategorizedgoldenAugust 21, 2013atmosphere, dark, Light, Rory Stuart, Shade, What are gardens for?31 Comments

Atmosphere in the garden - thoughts on a bright summer day

UncategorizedgoldenAugust 21, 2013atmosphere, dark, Light, Rory Stuart, Shade, What are gardens for?31 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenAugust 18, 2013Gerard Manley Hopkins, Light, Morning, Pied Beauty, Shade9 Comments

Summer morning

UncategorizedgoldenAugust 18, 2013Gerard Manley Hopkins, Light, Morning, Pied Beauty, Shade9 Comments
Summer morning
UncategorizedgoldenAugust 16, 2013memory, night, Nightfall, The garden at Federal Twist, What are gardens for?17 Comments

Nightfall: what are gardens for?

UncategorizedgoldenAugust 16, 2013memory, night, Nightfall, The garden at Federal Twist, What are gardens for?17 Comments
Nightfall: what are gardens for?
UncategorizedgoldenAugust 03, 2013Accident, Barnes Foundation, Brooklyn garden, Chance, Contemplation, country garden, Reflecting pool, The garden at Federal Twist, Urban garden20 Comments

Different gardens

UncategorizedgoldenAugust 03, 2013Accident, Barnes Foundation, Brooklyn garden, Chance, Contemplation, country garden, Reflecting pool, The garden at Federal Twist, Urban garden20 Comments
Different gardens
UncategorizedgoldenJuly 22, 2013Abstract composition, Garden experience, Garden photographs, Garden photography, Japanese prints, Physostegia, Rudbeckia maxima, Silphium9 Comments

Garden in the abstract

UncategorizedgoldenJuly 22, 2013Abstract composition, Garden experience, Garden photographs, Garden photography, Japanese prints, Physostegia, Rudbeckia maxima, Silphium9 Comments
Garden in the abstract
UncategorizedgoldenJuly 12, 2013Contemplation, Filipendula rubra 'Venusta', Garden Conservancy Open Days, hedge, Hornbeam, Rory Stuart, Silphium laciniatum, What are gardens for?, Wigandia, William Martin23 Comments

What are gardens for?

UncategorizedgoldenJuly 12, 2013Contemplation, Filipendula rubra 'Venusta', Garden Conservancy Open Days, hedge, Hornbeam, Rory Stuart, Silphium laciniatum, What are gardens for?, Wigandia, William Martin23 Comments
What are gardens for?
UncategorizedgoldenJuly 09, 2013Aruncus aethusifolius, Astilboides tabularis, Brooklyn garden, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, Cotinus 'Velvet Cloak, Darmera peltata, Mukdenia rossii, Persicaria 'Red Dragon', Pulmonaria, Smilacena racemosa, Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant', Tricyrtis formosana, Urban garden7 Comments

Brooklyn by mobile phone

Morning views of the neglected Brooklyn garden

UncategorizedgoldenJuly 09, 2013Aruncus aethusifolius, Astilboides tabularis, Brooklyn garden, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, Cotinus 'Velvet Cloak, Darmera peltata, Mukdenia rossii, Persicaria 'Red Dragon', Pulmonaria, Smilacena racemosa, Tetrapanax 'Steroidal Giant', Tricyrtis formosana, Urban garden7 Comments
Brooklyn by mobile phone
UncategorizedgoldenJuly 06, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days37 Comments

Aftermath ... and insight

UncategorizedgoldenJuly 06, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days37 Comments
Aftermath ... and insight
UncategorizedgoldenJuly 04, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days35 Comments

More than I expected

UncategorizedgoldenJuly 04, 2013Garden Conservancy Open Days35 Comments
More than I expected
UncategorizedgoldenJune 26, 2013Garden at Federal Twist, Garden Conservancy Open Days, garden tour, The Garden Conservancy13 Comments

This Saturday - Garden Open

The garden is open this weekend, Saturday, June 29, 10 am to 4 pm

UncategorizedgoldenJune 26, 2013Garden at Federal Twist, Garden Conservancy Open Days, garden tour, The Garden Conservancy13 Comments
This Saturday - Garden Open

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