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Read MoreGarden Tour, pt 1: Garden Elements
It’s May, and Maryland’s gardens are at their peak. There’s all the requisite public gardens we can tour, but it’s peaking behind those elusively private garden gates, and getting a glimpse of the inspired, lovingly-tended, personal gardens that’s the real treat. Beyond the Garden Gates garden tour is downtown Frederick, ...
Read MoreThe Heart of the Home – (re)Defining Home
To get anywhere on the first floor of our house, you must pass through the dining room. It’s both the figurative and literal heart of our home. As you look through the pictures of this room, you’ll see how many doors and windows there are. It opens onto the Long ...
Read MoreChartreuse & co TV teaser . . .
About 5 or 6 years ago, we were approached by a television producer about making a Chartreuse & co TV show. The producer, who has become a true friend, was shopping in the barns during a sale, and just thought, “Oh my gosh – the world would love to see ...
Read MoreFresh, Local Flowers
Here comes Spring! And all the lush beautiful flowers with it. And I just can’t wait! M&M Plants, of Dickerson, Maryland, returns this month to Chartreuse & co to satisfy our need for flowers. M&M grows out their early Spring plants in greenhouses so that flower-starved people like me can ...
Read MoreHouseMade by Hilary, from Country Living Fair to Chartreuse & co
We all like to think that we seek inspiration everywhere. Hilary Martin, creator and owner of HouseMade, does exactly that. I love these juxtaposed images for just that reason. Where many would see simple, decorative logs, or even firewood, Hilary saw lamps. And not just any lamps. She saw delightfully ...
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