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Frog Pond Farm, a love story
A mature garden covers three acres and includes spectacular rhododendron, crabapples and dogwood, more trees, borders with rhododendron, azaleas and unusual shrubs, primula that Ruby grows from seed, a pond built for love, a stream garden, and wild and cultivated perennials.
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published on June 10, 2005
A Very Private Small Garden
Paula Manchester opens her private garden to the public on May 7. Her quarter-acre corner lot provides ideas and inspiration to most people with a typical yard in the suburbs. You won't believe how spacious and secluded it feels.
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published on April 29, 2005
Embracing Trees
New membership in The National Arbor Day Foundation has brought one woman eleven free, flowing trees. They will attract songbirds, offering them sustenance far into the winter and me natural insect control.
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published on April 24, 2005
The Right Christmas Tree
Here is the most practical guide to placing B&B Christmas trees in the private landscape. Certified Landscape Designer, Barbara Abita, offers precise design and buying tips for unusual conifers that do double duty.
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published on December 08, 2004
Garden of Trees
A private home in Westchester County opens its gate to the public once a year. The garden glorifies trees in every way, mimics bedrock with stone terraces and uses the domestic lawn as a unifying frame.
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published on October 14, 2004
Broccoli Hall - Garden of Dreams
Maxine Paetro opens her garden, Broccoli Hall, to the public on June 26. The garden is a series of rooms in the English country cottage garden style. Highlights include an espaliered apple tunnel, cottage garden, extensive June border with roses and a fairy tale surprise in a woodland garden.
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published on June 16, 2004
The Macaroni Method
Designs for a Small Space Garden. Garden designer berms beds with unusual interest, tucks in plants, creates focal point pond, and keeps the maintenance and cost low.
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published on June 01, 2004
Designs in Jackson
Green Thumb Garden Club of Jackson, NJ, gives first annual garden tour. Two gardens profiled here -- the cultivated passion of Leo Kissling and the backyard habitat and large-scale railroading of Kim and Mike Venezia.
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published on May 21, 2004
The White Garden of Whimsy
A private estate in Lewisboro, NY, opens its garden to the public for The Garden Conservancy's Open Days program. Woodland gardens, perennial and annual gardens, a nymphaeum, man-made ponds, conservatory garden, labrynthe, and 800,000 daffodils and a sculpture collection make this garden special.
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published on April 22, 2004
Gardens Recreated
Sunrise Farms specializes in historic garden creation and restoration. Fenced in kitchen gardens with herbs and fruits and vegetables were pre-Victorian.
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published on March 11, 2004
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