On Making Money out of a Rock - the Enstone Marvells of Thomas Bushell

Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDBLOG , posted recently about a Times article documenting the trend for London's nouveau riche to burrow und...

On Having a Personal Landscape

Or, Something there is that doesn't love a wall. R. Frost I grew up wishing for hills and trees instead of the gently rolling prairie of...

Platinum Garden Prints by Beth Dow

In checking a few facts for the Sissinghurst post, I came upon the garden photography of Beth Dow . And caught my breath in delight. "T...

Friday Feature Garden - the walls of Sissinghurst

And when one thinks of garden rooms, one thinks of Sissinghurst. One of the great English gardens that I think of as the big S-es, the othe...

A Roof in the Sky

by Etienne Meneau Both of these posts make me think about the oft-used but poorly-defined term 'garden room'; and new ways of creati...

A Window into the Sky

A Window into the Sky made of plastic tape by oloop design of Ljubljana, Slovenija. "concept: the basic building element is thread, whi...

The Before and After Landscapes of Humphrey Repton

Long before cable TV popularized instant makeovers of houses, gardens, wardrobes, bodies and souls, Humphrey Repton knew the power of the &#...

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand

Re my earlier post on the meaning of gardens : few gardens are so meaningful as those made under the most difficult of circumstances. The co...

Apologies for the sparse posting due to travels...I've arrived back in the US and the lecture was well attended and well received, thank...