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, ...
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I get a lot of unexpected questions when I’m at the counter here at the barn, but certainly the most intriguing question I ever got was from Jared Herman, owner and principle architect at Oldetowne Landscape Architects: “I have a vision for your entry; could I create a garden patio ...
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Between visits to family homes and strolls through Frederick County, we’ve been filling our barns and getting ready for your visit this coming weekend. And now you get to visit one of my family’s homes: our home, here on the Chartreuse & co property, was my paternal grandparents’ home, and ...
Read MoreTo a home and garden junkie like me, few things are more enticing than house tours – the rare opportunity to step through doors and peak inside homes and gardens that are otherwise off-limits. This weekend, just as I’d thought that all the tours were finished for the season, Smithsburg, ...
Read MoreHistory is my passion. My love of old houses, buildings, furnishings, even trees, all come from this core obsession. So you can imagine my fondness for the Smithsonian Museum, and it’s all-but-endless ability to feed my curiosity. (I even interned there during college.) And so, when the opportunity came to ...
Read MoreWhile I love all four seasons here in the Mid-Atlantic area, it is Spring that brings me true joy. Already I’m hearing the birds chirping, and the receding snow mounds uncover the promise of green. This is the time of the garden catalogs, hope-filled seed packets, and ill-judged, too-early plant ...
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