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GERTRUDE JEKYLL & GARDEN ROOMS
Probably one of the most influential garden designers of the early 20th century, Gertrude Jekyll, was a proponent of separating the garden into separate enclosed areas, each devoted to a season, or a...
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FRAMING THE VIEW
Recently, Tara Dillard of A Garden View, posted about frames in the landscape. It brought to mind a lovely vignette I saw in a garden while in England. Initially I thought an artist had set up to...
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IN THE GARDEN…AT LAST
The heat has finally broken (low 90’s) and the humidity has dropped. Early this morning I chose a project from my ever-growing list of things to do in the garden and out I went! The project is the...
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THE GARDEN UNFOLDS
An overcast and rainy day. Great for the garden, good for photography. In the last post the photo of the entrance to both the Camellia Walk & Circle of Friends was not clear so here are some taken...
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DRUNK with CAMELLIAS!!
Vita Sackville West wrote of her garden… “I am drunk with roses!” I, am drunk with Camellias! blooming on the right …...
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LESSONS FROM CHARLESTON S.C.
No cameras in the gardens! The only photography allowed was from the public sidewalk. Still there are many lessons to be learned....
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A GRACIOUS GARDEN
Last week I mentioned my client the gracious Ms. C and her luxurious flower arrangements. Now lets take a look at her garden. Like so many homes here in the piedmont, the house was set into a slope...
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A GARDENER’S DILEMMA
Some areas of my garden are incomplete. The bones are all there, but the planting is far from ‘done’. For example, the lilies I have recently featured …...
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FALL TOUR
The area of the garden I’m sharing now on this Fall Tour is little seen because it’s incomplete. Not that any garden is ever ‘done’ or completed, however this part is has only ‘bones’ and is waiting...
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