Articles
“Bulbs in the Borders, Cats in the Beds”
Dutchess Mercantile, September 2009
As I write this, it is a colorful Labor Day weekend.
No-fuss phlox blooms in five shades of pink and mauve in the cottage garden, while repeat-blooming roses join with royal purple buddleia in the long border. Graceful, pink Japanese anemones and stiff white alliums harmonize in the courtyard and up-facing panicles of Hydrangea Tardiva, draped with sweet autumn clematis, brighten the garden gate.
“Not Your Garden Variety Vegetable Garden”
Dutchess Mercantile, August 2009
It’s August 10th and I’m holding the first tomoato from my vegetable garden. It is two inches in diameter with some nice yellow strips radiating out from under its small green hat. It’s a cute tomato, but not a meal, and this my entire harvest so far this year.
Actually, I’m not disappointed.
So let me start from the beginning.
“If there Could Only Be One Flower, it Would Have Be the Roses”
Dutchess Mercantile, June 2009
When I saw an old, run-down Cape Cod on a bulldozed lot, I made my decision wihtout ever seeing the inside. The little acre-and-a-half parcel faced south and was bathed in sun all day long, and that meant I could have roses.
I ran through the house with my eyes closed so nothing would distub my rosy vision. I signed papers and before the sale was closed, I began to plan the garden.
“For the Love of a Garden”
Country Home, May 2008
It was the coldest bleakest part of the winter 1984 when I saw a little Cape Cod house clinging to a bulldozed slope—and fell in love. Logically, honestly, it didn’t makes sense.
“The Garden at Broccoli Hall”
House & Garden, December 1996
A sunny hillside and a fertile imagination create an English cottage fantasy.
