The Open Garden Days are coming soon and you are invited! I’m pleased to announce the Open Garden Day dates for 2023: Saturday, June 17 Saturday, July 15 Saturday, August 12 Tickets sales will begin in early April. All tickets must be booked in advance. Spaces for morning and afternoon tours are…
Recently, I spent a very enjoyable hour speaking online with Heather Andrews, the Thoughtful Gardener. Her emphasis is on helping gardeners to create sustainable gardens that attract wildlife, support pollinators and increase vegetable yield using native plants. You can find her at Garden Thoughtfully. The website is well worth a look — she shares lots…
The Open Garden Day at Glen Villa Art Garden on June 25 was a huge success. People from the area and from far afield admired the garden, the art and the experience. A huge thank you goes out to the volunteers who worked at the registration desk, introducing the Massawippi Foundation, answering questions and explaining…
What a wonderful thing it is to fulfill a life-time ambition! I’ve wanted to visit Levens Hall since the early 1960s. That summer, a young English girl arrived in Virginia to spend a year living with me and my family and, as a gift, she brought us a book about English gardens. On the cover…
Glen Villa has a new website! No longer Site and Insight, the place to go for garden news and reviews is now Glen Villa Art Garden On this new site you will find the same write-ups of gardens I visit around the world and the same punchy opinions and commentary about…
Many people have asked when we will be opening the garden to the public this year. The sad news is, we won’t. This summer we are working on various garden projects that need time to settle in. But I hope that in 2019 we will have one — or maybe two — open garden days. …