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Tag Archives: Sagaponack
Truman Capote’s Sagaponack House
I’M FOREVER LOOKING for clues to the origins of my Long Island beach house. The town records, which go back only to 1957, when zoning was adopted, are useless, since the house was built before then. But when? And by … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Alastair Gordon, East Hampton, Sagaponack, Selvedgeyard, Truman Capote
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Annie’s Porch
SOMETIMES YOU DON’T NOTICE A HOUSE, however interesting, until your attention is forcibly called to it. That was the case for me with the Annie Cooper Boyd House, owned by the Sag Harbor Historical Society. I only visited it last … Continue reading
Bridge and Sagg
I’M STILL VERY MUCH IN THE DISCOVERY PHASE concerning the East End of Long Island, where I moved just under a year ago. One of my favorite areas is Bridgehampton/Sagaponack. Between Montauk Highway and the ocean, there are quite a … Continue reading
The Barely Bearable Fleetingness of Spring
Magnolia in East Hampton village THE ONSET OF SPRING, I’ve realized, is kind of like an LSD trip (or so I remember – this goes back a few years). You take the pill, you wait and wait, you’re convinced nothing’s … Continue reading
Dean Riddle’s Japan
I VISITED JAPAN LAST SUNDAY, through the eyes of Dean Riddle. A garden designer based in upstate New York, Dean spoke at Madoo Conservancy here in Sagaponack about his trip last fall to Kyoto (that’s Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion, top and … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, MISCELLANEOUS, TRAVEL
Tagged Dean Riddle, dry gardens, garden designer, Golden Pavilion, Imperial Palace, Japan, Kyoto, Madoo Conservancy, moss, Moss Temple, rock gardens, Ryoan-ji, Sagaponack, Siaho-ji, stone gardens, Tokyo, Zen
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Please Please Me, Perennials
ON SUNDAY, I WENT TO HEAR THE IRREPRESSIBLE GARDEN DESIGNER/WRITER DEAN RIDDLE speak at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. I’ve been a fan of Dean’s since his ‘Dean’s Dirt’ column in Elle Decor some years ago. His 2002 book, Out in … Continue reading
Posted in CATSKILLS, GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged 'Blue Fortune' agastache, 'May Night' salvia, acquilegia, alchemilla mollis 'Auslese', boxwood, bronze sedge, CATSKILLS, cobblestone carpet, columbina, composted manure, Dean Riddle, digitalis, East Hampton, echinacea, firetail, foxgloves, garden designer, hyssop, indigo, ladies mantle, ligularia 'Osiris Cafe Noir', Madoo, perennials, Sagaponack, salvia, Spielberg's nursery, upstate New York, verbena bonariensis
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Woodworks
Above: Alex Scott Porter, a New York architect, created this stacked log wall for a house in Amagansett. I AM THINKING OF BUILDING AN OUTDOOR WALL out of something I have in abundance: cut logs. There are six or seven … Continue reading
Posted in HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Alex Scott Porter, Amagansett, log wall, Madoo, Sagaponack, stacked log wall
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