This year I was asked to review a single book for the Wall Street Journal’s Spring Review Issue for the weekend edition April 9-10, 2022 on Catie Marron’s book Becoming A Gardener: What Reading andDigging Taught Me About Living. You can read the review by clicking here Scan 8.jpeg-pdf
I was honored to be asked again to write the annual round up review of new garden books by Christopher Carduff, books editor of the Wall Street Journal and thrilled to see in come into print this past weekend in the separate weekend review section. If you open the link I hope you can read …
Read MoreMy Gardening Book Review in the Wall Street Journal April 18-19, 2020
I was delighted to be asked by Christopher Carduff, the book editor of the Wall St. Journal, to write this year’s spring round up of gardening books, as I did last year. It came out on the weekend edition and you can read it here. Happy that the first book I reviewed, Saving Central Park, …
My book review of Penelope Lively’s new book, Life in the Garden (Viking 199 pages $25) was published in the Review Section of the Saturday-Sunday July 14-15, 2018 issue of The Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreGetting Your Hands Dirty The Wall Street Journal July 14-15, 2018
I was honored to be asked to write the spring book round up section on garden and landscape books for the Wall St. Journal’s weekend edition, April 11, 2018. Books Bookshelf Green Thoughts By Barbara Paul Robinson April 11, 2018 5:40 p.m. ET The Golden Age of the Garden: A Miscellany” (Elliott & Thompson, …
Read MoreGreen Thoughts by Barbara Paul Robinson Wall Street Journal April 11, 2018
News from Stonecrop Gardens, Winter 2009
by Barbara Paul Robinson, The English Garden, February 2008. Also appeared in Morning Calm, Korean Air Magazine, October 2008
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Fine Gardening, September-October 2007
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Horticulture Magazine, November 2006
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Horticulture Magazine, April 2006
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Horticulture Magazine, February 2006
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Horticulture Magazine, October 2005
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Horticulture Magazine, April 2005
by Barbara Paul Robinson, New York Times, May 30, 2004
Read MoreCuttings: Jack-in-the-Pulpits: Sensual and yet Sinister
by Barbara Paul Robinson, New York Times, May 23, 2004
by Barbara Paul Robinson, New York Times, December 14, 2003
by Barbara Paul Robinson, American Homestyle, September 2001
by Barbara Paul Robinson, American Homestyle, October 2000
by Barbara Paul Robinson, Hortus, Spring 1999
by Barbara Paul Robinson, as printed as a chapter in Secret Gardens Revealed By Their Owners, Rosemary Verey, 1994
I was delighted to see Alicia Whitaker’s wonderful review of Heroes of Horticulture in the North American Rock Garden Society Journal, a/k/a Nargs! Best of all, she quoted the hilarious limerick Frank Cabot wrote called The ARGS Hymn or The Alpine Gardeners Lament. Alicia is the President of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons which …
Read MoreReview in North American Rock Garden Society Journal
Kathryn Boughton wrote a delightful article in advance of my book talk for the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon in Berkshire Style, a web based publication sharing news about happenings in and around the Berkshires. You can read the article here
I am thrilled to report that Fine Arts Connoisseur (January/February 2019) just out has a wonderful article about my book, Heroes of Horticulture: Americans Who Transformed the Landscape. How wonderful to have this highly prestigious, international publication that focuses on the fine arts, usually limited to paintings, drawing and sculpture, appreciate the underlying art theme …
The Garden Conservancy’s recent Newsletter was kind enough to profile a story about my new book and me. See the first part above and the rest below. It appeared just before their annual elegant Christmas dinner for Fellows at the Knickbocker Club in New York, and shortly after their big holiday party in California. Most …
Judith Tankard has written a wonderful review of my book in her American Book Notes article in British quarterly, Hortus, A Gardening Journal, along with several others. In addition she has taken two photographs from my book, the one of Dan Hinkley and the glorious aerial photograph of Central Park, the only two images in …
Judith B. Tankard has written a wonderful review in her American Book Notes in the British quarterly, Hortus, a Gardening Journal in the Autumn 2018 issue. Here is her review and she has also included on the next page the glorious Aerial view of Central Park from my book.
Read MoreReview in Hortus, A Gardening Journal — No. 127 Autumn 2018
A wonderful review by Mary Ann Newcomer in the September/October 2018 issue of The American Gardener, The Magazine of the American Horticultural Society.
Read MoreReview in The American Gardener, September-October 2018 issue
By Jay E. Cantor in his column “My View.” It features some of the heroes in my book, Heroes of Horticulture: Americans Who Transformed the Landscape, highlighting the underlying art theme they share. Read it here by clicking on Jay Cantor-1
Read MoreMake Our Garden Grow in American Fine Art Magazine July/August 2018 Issue
In his column “My View” in the July/August issue of American Fine Art Magazine, my friend, Jay E. Cantor has recognized the underlying art theme in the stories of so any of the heroes profiled in my book, Heroes of Horticulture: Americans Who Transformed The Landscape. Here is Jay, sitting at my table at Wave …
Read MoreJay Cantor’s Article in American Fine Art Magazine about My Heroes of Horticulture
On His Radio Program Real Dirt, NPR
by Tovah Martin, Country Gardens, Spring 2010
by Rich Pomerantz, Litchfield Magazine, May-June 2010
by Jack Coraggio Passport, Winter 2008
by Tovah Martin, Fine Gardening, June 2005
by Paula Deitz, House & Garden, October 1997