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Side Trip: Ephrussi Garden, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
FROM NICE LAST TUESDAY, when clouds reigned, I took a half-hour bus ride up into the hills above the coast (itself worth it for the views). I was headed to Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, where the Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, between 1905 … Continue reading
Posted in FRANCE, GARDENS & GARDENING, TRAVEL
Tagged Beatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, Ephrussi, Ephrussi de Rothschild, gardens, Nice, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, villa
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Ornamental Edibles
Facebook.com/dirtmadedelicious THE DREAMING CONTINUES…the stack of gardening books on my coffee table grows…the sketches of my garden-to-come (six days ’til closing!) proliferate. I’ve realized that the area I’m considering for a vegetable patch — the only cleared, and hence sunny, … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged edible, edibles, gardening, gardens, ornamental, vegetable, vegetables
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BOOK REVIEW Garden Guide: New York City
NEW YORK in 2011 is truly a great garden city. World-class, I’d venture to say. Yet, as Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry point out in the newly revised edition of Garden Guide: New York City (W.W. Norton, $22.95), as recently as … Continue reading
Posted in BOOK REVIEW, GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, MANHATTAN
Tagged Battery Park, botanic gardens, Bronx, Bronx County Courthouse Greenroof Garden, Chelsea, Conservatory Garden, Dyckman Farmhouse, Garden Guide: New York City, gardens, Greek Revival, Greenacre Park, greenroof garden, High Line, Irish Hunger Memorial, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Lotus Garden, Morris-Jumel, Mount Vernon Hotel, Nancy Berner, NEW YORK CITY, Piet Oudolf, Queens Botanical Garden, Red Hook, revised edition, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, Susan Lowry, W.W. Norton
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Valencia’s River of Green
VALENCIA IS FULL OF MADDING CROWDS RIGHT NOW — the week-long Fallas festival,which takes place March 15-19 as it has for hundreds of years — involves lots of noise, color, and activity. Brass bands march through the streets, following parades … Continue reading
Rancho La Puerta: Garden Close-Up
I’M HOME FROM RANCHO LA PUERTA and not too happy about that. The sun is shining here in East Hampton, N.Y., and things have greened up slightly. The daffodils are still in force; my scrawny magnolia is in what passes … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, TRAVEL
Tagged African daisies, agave, alkaline soil, aloe, artemisia, Baja California, California pepper tree, chapparal, cistus, Coyote hike, date palms, echeveria, eco-conscious, eco-equivalents, Enrique Ceballos, eucalyptus, euphorbia, French lavender, gardens, gazania, heavenly bamboo, ice plants, Kuchumaa, landscape, Landscape Garden Walk, LANDSCAPING, Mexico, Montezuma pine, nandina, pyrocantha, queen palms, Rancho La Puerta, rock rose, salvia, Sarah Livia Brightwood, star jasmine, Tecate, trumpet vines, Villas Luna, wisteria
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casaCARA: Old Houses for Fun & Profit 