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Gardening: Hollister House Festival & Seminar

Hollister House, in Washington, CT, is the featured site of a Garden Conservancy-sponsored Study Weekend that kicks off with a cocktail reception and tour of the extraordinary gardens that were begun there in 1979 by George Schoellkopf and Ron Johnson.  Since then, under Schoellkopf’s guidance (and, since 1993, with

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Amy Goldman, Champion of the Real Tomato

“We're lucky to be living in such interesting tomato times," Rhinebeck resident Amy Goldman writes in her latest book, The Heirloom Tomato From Garden To Table (Bloomsbury USA, $35).  Twenty years ago cheap, perfectly shaped, unblemished, flavorless, dull red orbs were considered almost alright. Today, thanks to

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Eden Reconsidered

Duncan Brine’s first garden was in Brooklyn, in a dumpy plot behind his new girlfriend, now wife, Julia’s apartment.  “I made a garden so I could film it,” says the Princeton theatre major turned filmmaker turned landscape designer.  “It blew my mind.” Brine’s gardens have been blowing

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Berkshire Botanical Event: Gardening As Blood Sport

Don't let the theme of the 39th-annual flower show fool you: The Nurturing Garden: Birds, Bees, Butterflies and Best Friends sounds gentle, but the competition promises to be fierce.  Which brings to light a seldom mentioned fact: gardeners are as competitive as athletes.  This weekend they get to

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Excursions: Tours de Force

This Saturday, two tours, one of The Hidden Gardens of Spencertown, the other of Litchfield houses, vie for our attention. Both will kick off with special patrons cocktail parties on Friday night. Litchfield Open House Tour The 61st Annual Litchfield Open House Tour, to benefit the Connecticut Junior Republic, features

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Litchfield Garden Tour: Michael Trapp's Once-a-Year Day

Anywhere but New England, that’s where you’d guess Michael Trapp’s fabulous garden is, if you had been led there blindfolded.  Italy, most likely, maybe France, or someplace hot and decadent, where iguanas scoot across mossy stones and parrots squawk in the trees. In fact, Trapp’s legendary

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Conservancy Open Day Tour: Garden Variety

What makes a garden good enough to be on an Garden Conservancy Open Day?  All it takes is the artful use of the bits and pieces of land left over once a house, its outbuildings, and its main paths and driveways are in place--in short, a vision--and a prodigious amount

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Garden Tour: Conservancy Open Days Begin on Saturday

Saturday marks the beginning of the Open Days Garden Conservancy Tour season, with some of our region's most exceptional gardens open to the public. (We will keep you informed of tours of other properties on Open Days throughout the growing season.)  Saturday's itinerary has us poking

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A Garden Blog Especially for Us

Margaret Roach was planning to finally spend some quality time in her Columbia County garden when she left her executive job at Martha Stewart Omnimedia in New York City and moved to her weekend house this winter. But like her former boss, Roach is apparently indefatigable and ambitious so it&

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