NY Sonnenberg Mansion's special garden The Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion in Canandaigua, New York offer much to see for any gardener. A number of different gardens are spread throughout the fifty-acre property with its Gilded Age mansion. On a recent…
Portland Celebrates Victorian Christmas The Victorians knew how to celebrate the Christmas Holidays. The Victorian period in America from 1840 to 1900 gave us the Christmas we have today, which includes candles, ribbons, flowers, and of course, the evergreen tree.…
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…