Living and gardening in an older Hudson Valley home
Inviting people over is fun! I enjoy every aspect of it, from planning the guest list, choosing the date, selecting the menu, finding new recipes, setting the table, cooking and finally the conversation during the course of the meal. To me entertaining is an occasion. When I invite someone to my home I want them […]
My most ambitious project yet, a woodland garden, has begun in earnest. The woodland is a triangular area of the property that is completely overgrown. The original owners had horses in this area (I have found full size and pony size horse shoes while digging in the yard). The fence, except for a decorative section […]
When I bought the house there was an overgrown part of the yard that I could not figure out how to landscape. There were very large yew bushes covering a sizable area. They had obviously been pruned on occasion, but not recently and all the lower branches had died. The lower branches were about 10 […]
Hidden things are usually staring us in the face, they aren’t really hidden at all. Such is the case for an odd room in the house. The realtor, when I bought the home, described it as the Au Pair Suite. It is easy to tour the house and not realize the space is there. This […]
