Garden Inspiration: Spring Talks at The Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown NY: Mother’s Day Weekend Annotated
Saturday, May 10 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m
“Three outstanding presenters”– Ruah Donnelly, Duncan Brine,
and Kerry Mendez.
I’m pleased that Ruah suggested to Kerry that I join this symposium.
I’ve known Ruah for more than several years; she is a classy […]
Entries Tagged as 'Design philosophy'
Garden Inspiration: Ruah Donnelly, Duncan Brine, and Kerry Mendez Speak at The Otesaga Resort: Mother’s Day Weekend
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: East Coast · Speakers · Landscape Inspiration · Structured Naturalism
Around the World Discovery of Native Virtues
April 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide - Annotated
Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens
Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much more interesting […]
Tags: Landscape Inspiration · Public Gardens · Private Gardens · World · Design philosophy · Garden Rant · Large gardens · Native Plants
NY Public Gardens Die in Spring: First Gifford Garden, Now The Mount: What’s Next?
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Rural Intelligence | The Online News Source for Dutchess County & Columbia County, New York - Litchfield County, Connecticut - Berkshire County, Massachusetts | Reality Check: Commonweal Annotated
Info on Gifford Garden in Millbrook, NY here
Re The Mount:
more than 100 people attended a public forum on the future of The Mount, the Edith Wharton Estate […]
Tags: Public Gardens · East Coast · Architecture · History · Museums · Large gardens · Garden Blogs · Gifford Garden · IES · Hudson Valley Attractions
Benefits of Mitigation Banking
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Mitigation Banking: Benefits of Mitigation Banking
Tags: Environment · US · Large gardens
Humphry Repton’s Tinted Landscapes: Before and After
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Pruned: Landscape Hints Annotated
Discovered recently are these digitized before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from what must be the only complete online facsimile of his important texts.
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A quick word about these two images, for they are hilarious. The landscape […]
Tags: Landscape Inspiration · History · Europe · Design Technique · Large gardens · Images




