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  • Home
  • About
    • History of Glen Villa Art Garden
    • About Patterson Webster
    • Site & Insight: A personal approach to the land
    • Professional Distinctions
    • New Book! Autobiography of a Garden
  • Art Garden
  • Timelines
  • Activities
    • Events
    • Signature Talks
    • Open Garden Days & Tours
    • Seminars
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  • FR

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Vertical Gardens: how high can they go?

Design, Plants, TravelBy glenadminFebruary 24, 20143 Comments

Worth Avenue defines high end shopping in Palm Beach, Florida. High end appears in a different guise at a junction beside the avenue, where a vertical garden clothes a bare wall. Eleven different types of plants make up this wall. Late day shadows make the wall look less interesting than it is, but a close-up…

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Ann Norton Sculpture Garden: a garden review

Art, Design, People, Reviews, TravelBy glenadminFebruary 17, 20148 Comments

Combining sculpture and a collection of rare palms, the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden offers a quiet retreat from the up-scale social whirl of Palm Beach, Florida. Palm Beach, after all, was (and in some cases still is) home or vacation playground for many of the world’s rich and famous, from the Kennedy and Pulitzer families,…

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Do flowers make a garden?

Art, Design, Miscellaneous, People, TravelBy glenadminFebruary 9, 201421 Comments

Must a garden have flowers? Must it have trees and shrubs? Must it have plants at all? I think most people would say yes. But consider England’s great landscape gardens. Some of those designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown in the late 1700s had few if any flowers. And what about that masterpiece of garden art, the…

Lady Byng, Where Are You?

Miscellaneous, People, PlantsBy glenadminFebruary 2, 20141 Comment

The hunt is on for a lost peony, the Lady Byng. This special peony was said to be very pretty, and it definitely was colourful, bright crimson carmine with a distinctive cushion of buff and deep red.  It was also expensive: in 1926, it cost an astronomical $35. This is what it looked like:  …

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Happy Birthday to a one-year old blog!

MiscellaneousBy glenadminJanuary 27, 201412 Comments

A year ago this week I wrote the first entry for this blog, Glen Villa: Site and Insight. In the introductory post, I acknowledged that I didn’t know how the blog was going to evolve. I know I want to write about my garden, Glen Villa, and about how it got to be what it…

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2013: Glen Villa reviewed

Design, Glen Villa, ReviewsBy glenadminJanuary 20, 20144 Comments

The end of January isn’t the obvious time to do a year-end review, but since 2013 is well and truly over,  it’s now or never. And since next week marks the one year anniversary of this blog, and I plan to review some of the top posts and your comments about them, writing a month…

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Observing and learning

Design, People, TravelBy glenadminJanuary 12, 20146 Comments

A few months ago Don Stratham, a New York state garden consultant, wrote a blog post about garden mishaps, or learning from failures in the garden, in his blog called Rooting for Ideas. He listed some of his mistakes — and what they had taught him. But what his post made me think of was…

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Looking ahead: Glen Villa in 2014

Design, Glen VillaBy glenadminJanuary 5, 20148 Comments

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. But planning ahead for the garden is a regular winter activity. So this is what I plan (correction: make that hope) to do in 2014. 1. Clean up loose ends. This category includes more things than I like to think about. I often start new projects before the old…

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A study in black and white, bowed and broken

Glen VillaBy glenadminDecember 30, 201310 Comments

After several more days of snow, our landscape is a study in black, white, and grey… Birch trees on the hillside: an arrangement in grey and black, minus Whistler’s mother. with the occasional touch of green… Spruce trees in the lower field and yellow. A touch of yellow on a broken ash tree. So many…

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The dangerous beauty of ice

Glen Villa, MiscellaneousBy glenadminDecember 26, 20138 Comments

For the first time since I started writing this blog, a post is late, and by several days. Oh, well, it’s the holidays, you may think. But no, for almost a year now, I’ve managed a timely entry despite holidays, vacations and intense pressures to come away from the computer and enjoy myself. So it’s not…

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