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The Hooper Garden: A Passion That's Bigger than Both of Them

Sophisticated gardeners tend to agree that turning the land surrounding a house into a series of garden "rooms" is a great way to bring nature to heel.  This handy design device transforms negative space (ill-defined areas you may gaze across or wander through on occasion) into positive ones

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Gardens: A Gertrude Jekyll Legacy

by Betsy Miller Glebe House is an historic landmark in Woodbury, CT, “birthplace” of the Episcopal Church in the United States.  Meticulously restored to its 1750 heyday, it is also one of the first historic houses ever opened to the public as a museum. But, for gardeners, all that pales

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Trade Secrets: The Garden Season's Big Kickoff May 14 & 15

One of the reasons why Trade Secrets, the massive rare plant and garden antiques sale on May 14, is such an enchanting event is its setting: Lion Rock Farm, a 600 acre property on the Salisbury/Sharon, CT, border with breathtaking views of rolling hills and the Taconic range. Owner

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Out on a Limb: Architects Take a Bough

According to Vitruvius, the Roman scholar who authored De architectura, architecture is man's imitation of the nests, lairs, and hives animals build for themselves.  He also famously observed that architecture must have commodity, firmness, and delight. One wonders where he would have stood on treehouses.  These improvised structures

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Margaret Roach: Droppin’ Out is Hard To Do

In her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road, Margaret Roach often quotes pithy pop song lyrics to bring home a point in her account of how, at the height of her powers, she walked away from money and

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Book News: "The Gardens of the Hudson Valley"

In his foreword to the newly published Gardens of the Hudson Valley (The Moncaelli Press; $50), Gregory Long, the president of the New York Botanical Garden, reminds us that we should not take our geography for granted and that "the Hudson takes its place among the world's

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Book News: "The Private Gardens of Connecticut"

Gardens go dormant as the cold weather settles in, but gardeners never do. "Now is the time I start thinking about what I am going to plant next year," says author Jane Garmey, whose just-published collaboration with photographer John M. Hall, Private Gardens of Connecticut (Monacelli Press; $65)

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Devine Garden Open to Benefit Kinderhook Village

September 4  @ 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. For the third and final time this summer, internationally recognized textile designer Michael Devine will open to visitors his jewel box of a garden behind the commercial building in Kinderhook that houses his shop.  The goal of these open garden days

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Dog Days: Artists Unleashed at Berkshire Botanical Garden

A new exhibition opening this weekend promises to be as amusing as the garden sheds show that was here earlier this season. This time Matt Larkin, the show’s curator, has invited a dozen art and design superstars to take something humble and make it into something that is not

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Lenox Garden Club's 20th Annual House & Garden Tour

The Lenox Garden Club, which has been been around for 99 years, is more than a group of ladies who like to grow flowers and wear big straw hats as they troop around one another's backyards. It's a philanthropic organization that supports all sorts of local

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Spencertown Academy's Hidden Gardens Tour

Some garden tours are strictly fantasy trips; others are more instructive.   "People need to bring a pad and a pencil and a camera to this tour, because there are so many good ideas," says Madaline Sparks, contributing gardening editor at Real Simple magazine. "There's a

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A Tour of Private Gardens Benefits Cornwall Library

Having one's garden chosen for a charity tour must be, for the gardener, what a ticker tape parade is for a triumphant general.  Glory reigns, all bloodshed—and with gardens as with war, there is always bloodshed; failsafe strategies that nonetheless go awry—momentarily forgotten.  This Saturday, June

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