How- to Make a Lasting Impression with a Hypertufa Trough Hypertufa troughs are an earthy and natural container that goes with every garden style. Modeled after ancient stone troughs that were once used to hold water and feed for livestock in England and the Orient; later they were repurposed into planters. The look of these [...]
Follow your heart. You’ve heard it before, and you may even have taken this age-old advice. Against criticism–uppity and kind–I did just that. I followed my heart, and began to collect garden art. In a classic ah-ha moment, I looked around my garden and found very few pieces of my garden ornaments made [...]
Selecting art for a garden is a process. There are some areas of a garden that clearly have a voice wanting to go up an octave. With more forte, a focal point is often warranted. When selecting a focal point, keep in mind that it is meant to become the center of visual attention along [...]
First published in Triangle Gardener. For many, fall signals planting bulbs for spring flowers, picking the final summer harvest, and raking leaves. There’s a lot to be done in the fall garden. Fall is also a beautiful time of year to visit local gardens to get a new design perspective, planting ideas, and, at the [...]
Wild turkeys cleared the gravel path as I entered the Oxford, North Carolina, property of Alan and Marty Finkel on a cold January day in 2007. The sky was blue—that Carolina blue so typical of the region in winter. I was visiting the Finkels’ garden for the first time; what I thought would be an [...]
Each year, I anxiously wait to see first time and returning artists with new works of art. Going on now through November 19, 2011, is the 23rd annual Sculpture in the Garden walk. This year’s Best in Show (photo on left) was Michael Waller for Gathering and First Place (photo on right) went to Jim Galucci [...]
The best gardens always come word of mouth. As I was finishing a photo shoot at the Biltmore Estate’s Tiffany exhibit and the gardens inspired by the lamps for Country Gardens magazine, I had some time to kill before needing to get to my next appointment. First on my list of places to go was [...]
There are many ways children can be engaged in the garden; each season brings new opportunities to explore new ways to engage. Color is an important way to do so. In the spring, summer and fall, color abounds, so it’s easy to see why a child can be so engaged in the garden then…as well as many other fun ways with flowers, pollinators, and spiderwebs.
This year’s NC State fair had lots of new things to see. Erv Evans took his new role overseeing the Flower Show seriously and spruced it up quite a bit – including adding some worthy garden art. A big hit was a big bug made from a bunch of donated garden trash manipulated into a [...]
During a recent visit to The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden , I was delighted to find the Glorious Glass in the Garden exhibit: The Art of Hans Godo Frabel. The exhibit featuring hundreds of exquisite glass sculptures by Frabel were freely displayed through out the gardens. SIGHTINGS AT The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Helen Yoest [...]
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