garden design

Surprise Discoveries

Surprise Discoveries

Two weeks ago, volunteers and I dismantled the rotting wooden privacy fence along the west side of the Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden, to make way for new fencing to be installed this week. Doing the demolition in-house gave me the opportunity to get out the metal detectors (thanks, Ellen & Bill Archer!), and spend some quality time combing the property line for any original plant tags. …

A Return to Garden Structure

A Return to Garden Structure

Recently I migrated every post from the original Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden blog, which was begun in 2009 and on the Blogger platform (not integrated into the Wing Haven website, as this one is). …
I re-read every post. In so doing, I realized that there are more layers to some of those topics than meets the eye, and what has been learned in the years since the posts were written should be shared. …