Service Credit Union built its new corporate office on Lafayette Road in Portsmouth, NH in 2012. The building received the gold LEED award as a leader in energy and environmental design for the four-story structure. It uses ninety-eight percent less…
A restored garden always brings a sense of excitement. You are seeing a garden the way it was first installed. Or so you think. Last week I visited the restored private garden called Blue Garden in beautiful Newport, Rhode Island.…
Today I saw trays of spring flowers outside the supermarket. Though I loved seeing them as a sign of spring, they also reminded me of my current dilemma. I have been trapped in our condominium for six weeks now, due…
Garden urn at Portland's Victoria Mansion - The Victorians loved to set an urn with plants on the front lawn. Therese O'Malley writes in Keywords in American Landscape Design "In the context of the designed landscape, treatise writers often strongly…
Filoli hosts art exhibit - A few days ago I visited the wonderful historic garden Filoli, near San Francisco. The garden, surrounding a red brick mansion, dates to the turn of the twentieth century. Right now artist and landscape designer…