On October 19, my very birthday, I had the great pleasure of finally going to visit Chateau Courson in France during the now famous event held there, Les Journées des Plantes. I was thrilled to be invited by Patrice Fustier to speak about my book, although when asked whether I would be speaking in French, …
The New Britain Museum of American Art is truly a treasure located in Connecticut and I was honored to be invited to speak there on September 12th by the marvelous Director, Douglas Hyland. Here he is with Charlie and me just before my talk began in the entrance of the impressive new wing which is …
On Tuesday, August 27th, I had the great pleasure of speaking to The Garden Club of Dublin, New Hampshire, thanks to the kind invitation of Mary Lord who also graciously invited us to stay in her charming guest house on her beautiful place in nearby Peterborough. Here she is with me and Susie Catlin in …
By delightful coincidence, David R. Godine, the publisher of my book, has the company’s main warehouse in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, right next door to Dublin where I was scheduled to give a book talk. The main offices of David R. Godine have always been, and still are, in Boston but the warehouse is in Dublin …
There can be no more magical spot than high on a hill overlooking Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert, Maine. Here is the view of the harbor, as seen from a walk up the Asticou Terraces in late afternoon in early July the evening before I my book talk for the Beatrix Farrand Society. We stayed …
After flying back from my talk in Cleveland for the Kirtland Country Club on Saturday June 1, I barely had time to drop my suitcase and change my clothes before heading out to be one of the Library Luminaries featured by this annual fund raising event for our marvelous local library, The Gunn Memorial Library …
Thanks to Michael Dirda’s lovely review of my book in the Washington Post last Fall, I was invited to give a book talk at the Kirtland Country Club in Willoughby, Ohio in the suburbs of Cleveland. The highlight of my time there was meeting Dixon and her charming parents, Nancy and Nick Hill. Dixon was …
This past Thursday, my friend, Susan Perkins who is married to one of my favorite law partners, Rod Perkins, invited me to speak at a private luncheon in Manhattan. Susan and I didn’t even plan to wear complementary spring colors but here we are in spring green and pink. We had a large turn out …
On Monday, May 20, I spoke to the Millbrook Garden Club in the morning at the Sharon Town Hall. There was a large audience and several of those attending had met Rosemary Verey and been to Barnsley House which made the conversation a lot of fun. There was a hearthstopping few moments at the beginning …
On a beautiful spring day, I gave a book talk at the U.S. Botanic Garden’s Conservatory, in the shadow of the Capitol Building. Thank you, Libby Rhoads for organizing such a lovely event. Somehow we both got the “pink memo” as you can see from the picture below, standing in front of the most magnificent …