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Garden Tours & Touring Gardens
In April I had the pleasure of opening my Park Lane garden to several groups of avid gardeners, photographers, art, nature, and travel lovers. (Often this is the same person in one.) Last Thursday, The Garden Conservancy Society of Fellows swooped in with two busloads...
Small Spaces, Small Gardens
The smaller the space the more important each element becomes. This is true withboth interior and exterior spaces, with the difference in the outside being the ceiling height; i.e, the sky that is gloriously endless. At Gardens to...
Gone Fishin’
On a cold, windy February day we might feel like giving it all up to go fishing someplace where the sun is shining brightly on a shimmering sea. I found boats waiting for me at the Darien port in historic Darien, Georgia. I’m a working girl, and I like a working...
Pavers
Welcome to Gardens to Love, 2015 In past blogs, I have written more about plantings and plants and less about product. This month, I’d like to spend some time introducing you to a product that I like very much. It’s pavers, yes, pavers. We mention concrete...
Turkey Talk
There is more to Turkey than cornbread dressing with four vegetable sides. There is an entire country the size of Texas to explore, and I was fortunate to see a part of it in October. My curiosity about Mogul and Islamic gardens from the Ottoman empire led me to...
Fashion Week and Months
It is Fashion Week in New York City, Paris and Milan. The newspapers and magazines are full of photos and editorials about the new looks, colors and materials. Even I, a person who has dressed in a company uniform 5 days a week for 36 years,...
August is Awesome
Here at the Gardens to Love offices we do our best to put a positive spin on the month of August. We try to avoid phrases such as, “vile weather,” “hateful air today,” or “disgustingly hot.” I do my best to deflect those questions about whether or not the A/C is...
Box Balls And Parterres
My recent summer travels took me to Portugal with a group of fellow Institute of Classical Art and Architecture members.* I was prepared to see plenty of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century houses and public buildings, but I was surprised by the...
The Muchness of May
Magnolias, hydrangeas, geraniums, roses galore, honeysuckle, confederate jasmine, daisies, lawns and weeds. All these beauties and more are in glorious bloom right now, in May. Many of these make for a sweetly scented walk down my driveway and through the garden. Here...
The Scents of Spring: Atlanta Garden Ideas
It starts tentatively, almost a game of hide and seek. The fragrance of Lonicera fragrantissima is first out on an early February day. Then a group of February Gold daffodils appear offering their shy but clear scent. In spite of winter’s polar vortex, by...
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