Better half is working late (NYC agency life), so what better way to pass the time than take in the garden — and a glass of […]
Author: Lisa
Design
Okay, just in case you think this is all about putting a bunch of stuff in the ground and seeing what happens, it’s not. […]
Garden. Love.
Plants made an impression on me from the start. Â I recall bright purple pansies with yellow faces where we lived when I was just three […]
San Francisco
I’m traveling on business to San Francisco this week, quite fortuitously avoiding the East Coast blizzard of 2015. It’s been several years since I’d last […]
Seasons
Who says the warm months are when the garden is the most interesting? I was perusing our photo archives of the garden, this photo of one of […]
Respecting what has come before…
Part of the fun of the garden when you have an older home is trying to imagine what the former owners created. The grounds of our post-war […]
Fall planters
There is a certain joy in putting together a fall planter. Â Here is my first this year. Â I like the size for a mixed planting, […]
Winter garden
…or very early spring, to be hopeful. The lawn yielded another section to the rich soil of our plant beds, giving home to a beautiful […]
Waiting for Spring…
There’s a lot to be said for the winter garden and the aesthetic interest of perennials, grasses and seed heads covered in frost and snow. Come […]
Once upon a time…
… it all started when we moved to a small town in New Jersey. The type of mythical place where there’s a soda fountain in […]