» Articles from August 2008
Reprinted with permission from the author
Speaking of Weeds…
Here are some tips for August gardening from Margaret Roach, creator of the “A Way to Garden” website. Anne Raver of the New York Times calls it “the best garden blog I’ve ever seen”!
“I SOMETIMES THINK THAT AUGUST, not April, is the cruelest month (though T.S. Eliot thought otherwise). Hazy, hot and humid…and plum tuckered out. But give up we must not. Every weed pulled now is a hundred you don’t have to deal with later (well, who knows the precise math of mama weed to baby weed, but you get the idea: prevention!). Don’t let them go to seed.”
Click here to go the A Way to Garden website. Read more…
There’s so much to do here in the Hudson Valley, sometimes I forget the riches of the Berkshires. Of course, one should start any Berkshire visit at our Hammertown store in Great Barrington then keep going north for a great day trip.
This past week, Joan, Rosie Chase and I were thrilled when Frank and Katherine Martucci invited us to visit the new Like Breath on Glass exhibit at the Clark Museum in Williamstown, MA. Read more…
When Joan told me to go check out Stissing Design in Pine Plains, NY, my first challenge was to find it. But find it, I did!
Nestled back off the main road just beyond the Showroom & Design Center for Antique and Vintage Woods of America (if you’re headed west on Rt. 199) I found one of the most authentic and unpretentious artisans I have ever encountered. Read more…
