Category Archive: Gardens
World on a String
There may be snow on the ground here in Maine, erectile but the sight of these gorgeous string-flower creations from Amsterdam is making it feel like Spring. I am obsessed. This clever florist has taken the Japanese art of bonasai—and…
“The season of lists and callow hopefulness…”
The great editor and grande dame of New England gardening, Katharine S. White, gives her opinion on dahlias in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, but she loved this time of year here in Maine almost as much as she did full-blooming…
Round and Round
Every time I go to Paris’ Jardin de Luxembourg I have to make sure that it’s there—Rilke’s beloved elephant, going round and round on the park’s carousel, as described in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. The wooden carousel, created in 1879,…
Silken Petals
If I lived nearer to the Paris flea market I’d start collecting antique silk flowers, of the sort that used to bedeck the world’s prettiest hats. It’s said that in 1775 Marie Antoinette was presented with a silk rosebud that…
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