New York's Central Park, designed in the English picturesque stye You love the look of Central Park, the premier public promenade in America, created to voice democracy, a green space open to all. The genius behind Central Park, Frederick Law…
The lawn at England's famous Chatsworth seems to go on forever. You need inspiration for a garden or landscape. You borrow ideas from other places you have seen. Visiting gardens is thus something every gardener does. In 1850 Andrew Jackson…
Chatsworth, outside one of the greenhouses As you know, Chatsworth is the grand dame of English landscape design. For the past five hundred years people have sought to walk its grounds of picturesque charm. So it was a suprise to me…
This mum called 'Pink Graceland" was part of last year's annual Chrysanthemum Show at Smith College, Northampton, MA. Fall chrysanthemums now appear in all kinds of colors including purple and red. You see them wherever you go. It seems like…
Hidcote Manor in England has its own rhetoric, dividing the garden into separate rooms. Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn in her book The Language of Landscape wrote “Landscape is a play with many actors–flowers, people, trees, rocks–who come and go across…