Fletcher Steele's Naumkeag Design Restored A few weeks ago I visited Naumkeag in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The house and garden date to the first half of the twentieth century, reflecting a bit of the period of the grand Gilded Age mansions…
Edith Wharton's Mount features shade garden. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) wrote not only fiction, but her interest in house and garden design inspired both books and articles as well. She wrote 40 books in 40 years. Wharton named her house in…
Rural New Hampshire Features Victorian Garden For years people have been telling me about The Fells in the Lake Sunapee area in Newbury, New Hampshire. John M. Hay, who once served as secretary to President Abraham Lincoln, built a summer…
Maple Tree Honors Scottish Plant Hunter. In both his catalog and monthly magazine the Rochester, New York seedsman James Vick (1818-1882) often mentioned 'Drummond phlox' as an ideal annual for the garden. In his magazine Vick's Illustrated Monthly in 1878…
Valerian became Victorian garden favorite. When we bought our house, almost thirty years ago, we found Valerian growing along the driveway. There were a lot of tall valerian flowers in spring. I knew cats liked it because I often found…