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UncategorizedgoldenDecember 26, 2015Matteuccia struthiopteris, Salix alba 'Britzensis', Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka', Spartina pectinata, winter14 Comments

Garden diary: remembering winter

UncategorizedgoldenDecember 26, 2015Matteuccia struthiopteris, Salix alba 'Britzensis', Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka', Spartina pectinata, winter14 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenNovember 18, 2015Delaware Valley University, DelVal, Jeff Charlesworth, landscape architect, landscape architecture12 Comments

Landscape architects in the making

UncategorizedgoldenNovember 18, 2015Delaware Valley University, DelVal, Jeff Charlesworth, landscape architect, landscape architecture12 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 30, 2015Bill Thomas, Chanticleer, Garden photography, Lisa Roper, R- William Thomas, Rob Cardillo39 Comments

Ending the season at Chanticleer

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 30, 2015Bill Thomas, Chanticleer, Garden photography, Lisa Roper, R- William Thomas, Rob Cardillo39 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 27, 2015Joseph Addison, Lancelot 'Capability Brown', The Brown Advisor16 Comments

Pictures vs. words

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 27, 2015Joseph Addison, Lancelot 'Capability Brown', The Brown Advisor16 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenOctober 03, 2015Derry Watkins, Edgar Allan Poe, Fog, Gordlinia, Special Plants21 Comments

Garden Diary: The garden in between ...

UncategorizedgoldenOctober 03, 2015Derry Watkins, Edgar Allan Poe, Fog, Gordlinia, Special Plants21 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenSeptember 23, 2015Dan Pearson, Desert Island Discs, The Old Rectory, The Old Rectory at Naunton, the wild side, Windrush26 Comments

The Old Rectory at Naunton

UncategorizedgoldenSeptember 23, 2015Dan Pearson, Desert Island Discs, The Old Rectory, The Old Rectory at Naunton, the wild side, Windrush26 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenAugust 23, 2015Bury Court, Christopher Bradley-Hole, Datisca cannibina, Hauser & Wirth, John Coke, Miscanthus giganteus, New Perennials, Noel Kingsbury, Oudolf: Hummelo, Piet Oudolf, Sanguisorba23 Comments

Green, green

UncategorizedgoldenAugust 23, 2015Bury Court, Christopher Bradley-Hole, Datisca cannibina, Hauser & Wirth, John Coke, Miscanthus giganteus, New Perennials, Noel Kingsbury, Oudolf: Hummelo, Piet Oudolf, Sanguisorba23 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJuly 07, 2015Summer garden19 Comments

Catch as catch can

UncategorizedgoldenJuly 07, 2015Summer garden19 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJune 30, 201538 Comments

Hidcote - a Garden of Rooms

UncategorizedgoldenJune 30, 201538 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJune 21, 2015Garden Conservancy, Garden Conservancy Open Days6 Comments

Open Garden - Saturday, June 27

UncategorizedgoldenJune 21, 2015Garden Conservancy, Garden Conservancy Open Days6 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJune 18, 2015carexTours, Carolyn Mullet, Charles Bridgeman, Dan Pearson, English landscape garden, Garden Inspiration, Rousham, The Arcadian Friends, Tim Richardson, William Kent23 Comments

First seeing Rousham

UncategorizedgoldenJune 18, 2015carexTours, Carolyn Mullet, Charles Bridgeman, Dan Pearson, English landscape garden, Garden Inspiration, Rousham, The Arcadian Friends, Tim Richardson, William Kent23 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenApril 29, 2015carexTours, Carolyn Mullet, Chelsea Flower Show, Dan Pearson, Folly Farm, Goddards, Gravetye Manor, Great Dixter, Hidcote, High Beeches, Kiftsgate, Munstead Wood, RHS Wisley, Rousham, Sissinghurst, Vann13 Comments

Off to England ... working with carexTours

UncategorizedgoldenApril 29, 2015carexTours, Carolyn Mullet, Chelsea Flower Show, Dan Pearson, Folly Farm, Goddards, Gravetye Manor, Great Dixter, Hidcote, High Beeches, Kiftsgate, Munstead Wood, RHS Wisley, Rousham, Sissinghurst, Vann13 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenApril 27, 2015Avoidance, Federal Twist6 Comments

Recollection

UncategorizedgoldenApril 27, 2015Avoidance, Federal Twist6 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenApril 20, 2015Blue Atlas Cedar, decay, rot, sapsucker, Sycamore, woodpecker16 Comments

Rot, decay, more life

UncategorizedgoldenApril 20, 2015Blue Atlas Cedar, decay, rot, sapsucker, Sycamore, woodpecker16 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenApril 15, 201529 Comments

Where not to put a garden

UncategorizedgoldenApril 15, 201529 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenApril 12, 2015Salamander12 Comments

First salamander

UncategorizedgoldenApril 12, 2015Salamander12 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenApril 03, 2015Acer palmatum, Aster, Astilbe taquetii 'Purple Lance', Camassia, Darmera peltata, Equisetum arvense, Filipendula rubra 'Venusta', Galium odoratum, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Joe Pye Weed, Liatris spicata, Matteuccia struthiopteris, miscanthus, Noel Kingsbury, Packera aurea, Petasites, Sanguisorba, Sedum 'Herbstfreude', Silphium40 Comments

What if a visitor arrives before the garden's up to snuff?

UncategorizedgoldenApril 03, 2015Acer palmatum, Aster, Astilbe taquetii 'Purple Lance', Camassia, Darmera peltata, Equisetum arvense, Filipendula rubra 'Venusta', Galium odoratum, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Joe Pye Weed, Liatris spicata, Matteuccia struthiopteris, miscanthus, Noel Kingsbury, Packera aurea, Petasites, Sanguisorba, Sedum 'Herbstfreude', Silphium40 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenMarch 14, 2015Battery Bosque, Elle Decor, Gardens of the Garden State, Nancy Berner, Piet Oudolf, Sigrid Gray, Susan Lowry14 Comments

Federal Twist in Elle Decor - Redux

UncategorizedgoldenMarch 14, 2015Battery Bosque, Elle Decor, Gardens of the Garden State, Nancy Berner, Piet Oudolf, Sigrid Gray, Susan Lowry14 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenFebruary 26, 2015Brooklyn Museum, emotion in the garden, Judith Scott12 Comments

An artist

UncategorizedgoldenFebruary 26, 2015Brooklyn Museum, emotion in the garden, Judith Scott12 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenFebruary 02, 2015Gleditsia triacanthos, Honey locust, Manhattan, Paley Park14 Comments

Paley Park

UncategorizedgoldenFebruary 02, 2015Gleditsia triacanthos, Honey locust, Manhattan, Paley Park14 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 28, 2015MOMA, MOMA garden, Museum of Modern Art13 Comments

MOMA Garden (yes, on iPhone)

UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 28, 2015MOMA, MOMA garden, Museum of Modern Art13 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 26, 2015stone circles8 Comments

The Circle: Finished

UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 26, 2015stone circles8 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 21, 2015Inula, stone circles, Sycamore11 Comments

The Circle: Progress

UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 21, 2015Inula, stone circles, Sycamore11 Comments
UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 07, 2015Dan Benarcik, Fog, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Japanese fantail willow, miscanthus, Salix alba 'Britzensis', Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka', Wolfgang Oehme23 Comments

In praise of weather (again)

UncategorizedgoldenJanuary 07, 2015Dan Benarcik, Fog, Inula racemosa 'Sonnenspeer', Japanese fantail willow, miscanthus, Salix alba 'Britzensis', Salix sachalinensis 'Sekka', Wolfgang Oehme23 Comments

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