Gertrude Jekyll

Discoveries

2011-02-06 00:00:00

Embroidered Ground Revisiting the Garden Page Dickey Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 250 pp., $25 Bookish gardeners know well (even in sunny Southern California) the delights of the winter doldrums. In rain and snow they diligently read their way through...

Venice High's Learning Garden, a locavore's delight

2010-12-22 16:33:14

The Dry Garden: Novelist Michelle Huneven's foothill paradise

2010-04-23 16:33:50

Just add tea and crumpets

2005-06-23 00:00:00

Few phrases are more magical than "English garden." The words conjure visions at once settled and unconstrained: cool emerald vistas, buxom clumps of lilies and larkspurs, rose petals spilling from a tree-hugging vine. Caught in their spell, desert...

Chris Giftos' Gift For Entertaining

2010-12-10 00:00:00

If you're feeling a bit stressed about your holiday entertaining plans, listening to Chris Giftos talk about his experiences should calm you. There was the time that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was coming for a dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of...

Roses easy to grow

2007-05-08 00:00:00

Over the years roses have gotten a bum rap for being finicky and difficult to grow. The key is selecting the rose rose. Here's a list of easy-care roses from Stanley Kosidlak, a Hampton resident, member of the Virginia Peninsula Rose Society and master...

C'mon, bud, you can do it

2006-03-31 00:00:00

If you abandoned roses years ago because they were too fussy to grow, check out the trouble-free rose choices available at local garden centers this spring. Newer varieties such as Knock Out and Double Knock Out in reds and pinks are about the most...

Yes, you can

2005-05-22 00:00:00

There's no good reason to keep roses out of your garden. They're not the fussy yard companions you've always thought them to be. In fact, there are lots of roses out there to suit your special needs and you don't have to own an arsenal of chemicals to...

A butterfly bush hovers over white alyssum and vivid blue lobelia lining an English border in L.A., modeled after the airily textured concepts of British designer Gertrude Jekyll.

2005-06-22 20:07:01