Inspiration comes from many places, sometimes unexpected. The layout of the
Telegraph garden was influenced by square swimming pools that jut out into
the sea, as I’ve seen at Margate, and also the square salt pans I’ve seen in
Gozo. And quarries, with their abstract line of stones cut and waiting for
delivery, are another image that feeds into my design.
Chelsea 2012: Sarah Price’s garden design influences
Groundbreakers available for free vegetable garden design
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 6:15 am
The volunteer gardeners from Trinity Homegrown Foods, known as the “Groundbreakers,” continue to offer a free vegetable garden design service that’s available to all Hayfork residents. Their most recent project was the new raised bed garden just built at Kelly Parson’s Day Care in Hayfork. Working along with parents who have their children at the day care, five 24-foot long raised beds were built and several smaller beds were modified and all were filled with amended soil in less than a day. This was very much a community project with Sunshine Gardens, Bayley’s and others making generous donations, and the Groundbreakers are proud to have been able to assist in providing these children with the experience of growing their own food.
The Groundbreakers have expertise in seed starting, appropriate local crop selection, plant nutrient needs, fence and raised-bed building, irrigation systems and pest management. In short they’re quite confident that they will be able to solve whatever problem the owner might currently have that keeps him or her from having a productive food garden. And once you have plants in the ground the Groundbreakers will be continue to be available to advise and help through to harvest time. There is still time to get them to help you put in a garden of your own this spring. Call Tom Cook at 739-3938 to schedule an appointment.
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Garden design and décor: Shabby chic garden décor
Shabby chic uses vintage and time worn items in your garden decor design.
The term ‘shabby chic’ was founded by Rachel Ashwell. It is a comfortable style using elegant and time worn items together in a way that is welcoming and inviting whether it be inside the home or outside. A balance of simple garden pleasures, cottage flowers, vintage furniture and architectural details makes a type of elegance that is light, fresh and summery. Shabby chic garden style can be an extension of your home décor.
When things such as time worn iron metal furniture, easy care fabrics and vintage accessories are used people feel comfortable and are not afraid to put their feet up and relax. Think of your outdoor space as another room to decorate.
Garden design and décor: shabby chic garden décor
Any corner of the yard will do or you can slowly incorporate shabby chic into your entire yard. Shabby chic can be incorporated into the flowers themselves by using vintage flowers and bulbs. Use lots of plants on your patio or porch. The front door can be part of the shabby chic look by putting little twinkle lights around it. For a covered porch that is big enough use oversized furniture and paint it white. There are no dark and heavy pieces in shabby chic. The furniture can be distressed to look as though it has been used for years. Hang a vintage crystal chandelier over one end of a outdoor sofa. The chandelier does not even have to work, but would be nice if it did. Throw some pillows on the furniture for comfort. These pillows can be covered with loose slipcovers in a floral fabric. Use fabrics that are faded and have muted pastel colors. A variety of patterns can be mixed together as long as the background is the same color such as ivory. Think about using rumpled and ruffled fabrics for your furniture covers. Ironing is not necessary.
Hand-me-downs and flea market finds are perfect for the shabby chic look. Use lacy linens and lots of white accessories. Old wall mirrors that can be found are great for a porch to reflect the sunshine or pretty cottage style flowers. Old mirrors usually have the silver part on the back partly gone, but that is fine for shabby chic decor. To get the look of age in new fabrics tea can be used to stain the fabric. Use a coffee and tea mix and dip your fabric into the tea until you get the look you desire.
Small twinkle lights always look great in a garden, on a patio or in the trees. Add them to garden structures, through topiaries and trees to emphasize your shabby chic garden design. Bring out vintage collectables for special occasions or even for everyday décor. Things that are flawed or damaged can be used outside in shabby chic décor when you don’t want to use them in the house. Save your better items for inside. Use old mismatched tea cups and saucers for outdoor get-togethers. Floral fabrics or white sheer fabrics can be hung on the porch to blow in the wind or be tied back to the porch posts. Unravel some old grapevine wreaths and stretch it out over the top overhang of the porch, with twinkle lights throughout.
Shabby chic is a soft, comfortable look that does not have to cost lots of money. Use your imagination and shop at thrift stores, garage sales etc. for those one of a kind items. Relax, have fun and be creative.
Bucks County Designer House and Gardens Tour enters 37th year with Spring …
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If your garden is still wearing last year’s mulch, perhaps now faded to a dull, mousy brown, not to worry. After attending the Bucks County Designer House and Garden Tour this month, you’ll be prepared to dress up your garden (and house, too) with a lot more than just a pile of cedar wood chips.
“The Bucks County Designer House and Gardens is in its 37th year,” said Debbie Camiolo, this year’s chairwoman. “This year’s house offers the largest major renovation in tour history.”
The house selected for this year’s monthlong showcase tour is an 19th-century Dutch Colonial called Spring Valley Farm, situated on 11 acres in Furlong. It is owned by the Reavey-Cantwell family, and Marion Cantwell wished that one day it would become part of the designer house tour.
Sponsored by the Village Improvement Association of Doylestown, the tour each year focuses on a different home, which is carefully selected for its suitability in becoming a showpiece, then renovated and displayed with all of the benefits going to Doylestown Hospital.
The house’s well-preserved hardwood floors, along with several unique fireplaces and crown molding, lent to the selection committee falling in love with the house and affording them the opportunity to re-design or completely renovate the rooms.
“All five bathrooms, along with the kitchen, wine cellar and laundry room have been updated,” said Camiolo. “The outdoor spaces will be transformed into impressive gardens.”
“The results are spectacular,” said Joy Levy, marketing chairwoman. “We’re loaned the house for about three months and have done some extensive remodeling. There are 14 garden areas as well as a pool and some very cool patios.”
In addition to the house and garden tour, in which close to 30 interior design hot spots will be featured, and items available for sale in the boutiques (Floral Wholesale Warehouse, Fox Heath Saddlery, Katydid Photogaphy, Simon’s Fine Art, and The Kitchen Potager), visitors will be offered several additional amenities.
A fashion show and brunch, scheduled for May 11 and 12 at 11 a.m., will feature current women’s, children’s and pet fashions by Bloomingdales, Back Nine, Banana Republic, Chico’s, Head Over Heels, 40 Love, Sports Authority, GAP Kids, Doggie Style, Simon’s Fine Art and catered by the Waterwheel.
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Minimalist designs for outdoor living
IT CAN be difficult to imagine a small back yard ever resembling anything like a garden but this week’s garden style is perfect for such spaces.
The modern minimalist garden style has a primary focus on outdoor living. A style most popular in urban gardens where space is at a premium, it provides the opportunity to extend the house into the garden. You can quite literally create outdoor rooms to suit any number of activities – dining and relaxing among the favourites.
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outdoor space: A style most popular in urban gardens, the modern minimalist garden style has a primary focus on outdoor living.
These garden rooms are most successful when designed and constructed to accommodate specific furniture for the desired use and to link visually with the overall design.
For a lounge area a good solution would be to plan a spacious patio for an outdoor sofa and coffee table set. The area would gain a sense of privacy and cosiness by enveloping with tall luscious planting. A fireplace positioned opposite the seating can also add not only warmth but an architectural focal point, anything from a small chimnea or copper fire bowl to a custom stone built fully functional fireplace.
If you are really limited on space then incorporated benches built in to the hard landscaping can be a great alternative. A garden with raised planting beds are a good idea as they are easy maintenance and cantilevered benches can easily be incorporated into them giving a really contemporary look. Easy maintenance planting goes hand-in-hand with this style of garden commonly featuring tiered evergreen hedging with slow growing varieties like box and yew and sometimes pleached “hedges in the air” that only require a trim a couple of times a year. Minimalist planting schemes work best if kept as simple as possible, block planting whole borders in just one species can make a really strong statement especially if combined with bold architectural plants strategically placed as focal points.
With the minimalist style a simple and uncluttered approach to every aspect of the design needs to be taken but the careful use of materials is particularly important to get the right effect. If you incorporate raised beds into your garden then they could be built using a number of materials and techniques such as bricks, railway sleepers and rendered block walls. Light coloured rendered walls produce a clean and simple look which works beautifully when combined with a modern paving like black limestone for contrast. Tall boundary walls can be made into stunning focal points by treating them like a canvas and adding other materials to create interesting effects.
Something as simple as horizontal wooden slats, fixed between the supporting pillars of a wall can produce a surprisingly modern and expensive look. Garden designers often take inspiration from the client’s use of interior design with the materials like a hardwood deck placed just outside the patio doors which gives the impression that the wooden floor in the room continues outdoors.
There are many ways that designers integrate water within modern minimalist gardens as a method of softening the hard-lines. Re-circulating water feature pools are very popular and relatively easy to install – specifically wall mounted water blades (which are ideal for this style) producing a smooth sheet waterfall effect. Large pools of still water can also act like a giant mirror reflecting the sky and giving a calming and contemplative feel to the onlooker.
If you have any questions e-mail me at: info@gardnerdesigns.co.uk
Dallas Museum Simmers in a Neighbor’s Glare
The results exceeded expectations. And Dallas has a mess on its hands.
The center, designed by Renzo Piano and Peter Walker, was considered so appealing that a 42-story condominium called Museum Tower sprouted across the street. But the glass skin of the condo tower, still under construction, now reflects so much light that it is threatening artworks in the galleries, burning the plants in the center’s garden and blinding visitors with its glare.
No one quite knows what to do. The condo developer and museum officials are at loggerheads. Fingers are being pointed. Mr. Piano is furious. The developer’s architect is aggrieved. The mayor is involved. A former official in the George W. Bush administration has been asked to mediate.
The situation has been characterized by some here as a David-and-Goliath battle between a beloved nonprofit and commercial interests. But the dispute has also raised the broader question of what can happen when, as is currently the rage, cultural institutions are cast as engines of economic development.
The Nasher was seen as an important spur to the renaissance of downtown Dallas, much the way Lincoln Center was viewed as something of a cure for urban blight on the West Side of Manhattan. But the forces unleashed in these situations can prompt a distinctly uneasy relationship between cultural organizations and the neighborhood changes they attract.
“These things start to bump into each other,” said the mayor of Dallas, Mike Rawlings. “How we as a civic society power through this is an important moment for us. You’ve got a high-growth engine that is trying to do right by Giacometti.”
Dallas’s interest in raising its cultural profile is palpable here: the city has been building its arts district over the last 20 years; Saturday Cowboys Stadium hosted a simulcast of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” by the Dallas Opera. The Nasher problem has the whole city concerned and watching.
“Typically, neighborhood disputes are not this dramatic — an offending sign or a barking dog,” said Veletta Forsythe Lill, the executive director of the Dallas Arts District. “This is a cultural, civic and commercial tragedy. The Nasher is a kind of a masterpiece, and the building and the garden were perfectly designed.”
Mr. Piano said he designed the Nasher with natural light in mind. The museum has an arched glass roof with a perforated aluminum screen in an egg-crate pattern that directs the sun into the galleries, which were laid out in anticipation of the sun’s daily arc from southeast to southwest.
Now, sun, magnified by reflection, shines into the galleries from the north and raises the temperature in the sculpture garden — designed by Mr. Walker — to levels that jeopardize the specially planted live oak trees and grass.
“By doing this, they destroy completely the logic of the building,” Mr. Piano said in an interview.
For the museumgoer, the sculptures in the galleries and the garden can be obscured or distorted by distracting light patterns or glare. The museum was forced to install light-blocking panels inside the roof for a recent exhibition of works by Elliott Hundley because the reflections from the tower exceeded the acceptable light levels for the art.
Scott Johnson, the Los Angeles architect who designed Museum Tower, said he was willing to consider remedies but that the Nasher also had to be open-minded. “My responsibility is to fully vet solutions vis-à-vis Museum Tower — that’s my building,” he said. “But I can’t say sitting here now that the Nasher may not need to do something on their end.”
Museum Tower’s owners said in a statement, “All parties desire resolution to these issues as quickly as possible.”
Underwater garden may be dropped from new St. Petersburg Pier plan
ST. PETERSBURG — A key element of the new Pier design will be excluded from an agreement for the $50 million project when it goes before the City Council for approval in a couple of weeks.
Reservations about the proposed underwater garden —- a showcase centered in the tiara-like design of the new Pier and touted as a “habitat for oysters, reef wildlife and sea grasses” —- are behind the decision to omit the design and engineering portions of the concept from the base contract, public works administrator Mike Connors said.
“It would be disappointing if it’s not part of the final design,” said Will Michaels, chair of the design committee for the Pier Advisory Task Force.
In coming months, though, the Michael Maltzan Architecture design team and city staff will work with Tampa Bay marine science experts to determine the viability of the underwater garden, a process that will be covered in the upcoming contract.
“We really want to consider it closely and make sure it’s feasible before we get into spending a whole lot of money designing it,” said Raul Quintana, the city’s architect. “We want to make sure it works.”
To Ed Montanari, vice chair of the task force, it’s “the key component of the design.”
“I don’t know of any other idea like that in Tampa Bay,” he said. “The people that come up with the ideas, they have the details. I’m going to be very interested to see if it works like they say it works.”
Scientists interviewed by the Tampa Bay Times have expressed doubts about plans for the “natural aquarium,” which will be built around pilings that support the current Pier. The plan proposed by Tom Leader Studio in California, a member of the Michael Maltzan team, includes planting sea grass that would “attract manatees looking to graze” and sea turtles. Plans for the nearly $900,000 component call for oysters in wire mesh bags to be placed in trays attached to the pilings. The oysters would filter and clarify the murky water.
Scientists are skeptical about several aspects of the underwater garden, from the idea of growing sea grass to possible pollutants in the area that can be toxic to marine life.
“We’ve had questions about it all along and I think from day one, we’ve all said, this is something we just don’t want to build, we want to make sure it works,” said Chris Ballestra, the city’s managing director of development coordination.
“Granted, it is a unique concept that no other builders have come up with. It does a good job of addressing ways to keep the bay clean. We really want to make sure that we do our homework so that we’re not ultimately chasing a project that doesn’t make sense.”
Discussions about the garden will be held with the St. Petersburg Ocean Team, a consortium for marine science, oceanographic, and environmental research agencies and institutions, Ballestra said.
“I think that’s a go-to group that is worth listening to,” he said.
Meanwhile, contract negotiations are continuing between the city and Michael Maltzan Architecture for the new Pier, with an agreement set to go before the council May 17. If the underwater garden “is determined to be feasible and financially acceptable,” an amendment to the agreement would be sent to the council for approval, Connors said.
The contract will be followed by months of discussions and public input, leading to a final design for the new Pier later this year, Ballestra said.
Waveney Ann Moore can be reached at wmoore@tampabay.com or (727) 892-2283.
Stalker told his heavily pregnant wife: ‘I’m in love with your husband’
- Woman frequently turned up on the set of his gardening shows pretending to be his producer as well as breaking into the celebrity designer’s home
- Stalker told his heavily pregnant wife: ‘I’m in love with your husband’
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Unwelcome attention: Diarmuid, 47, endured months of fear after being followed by the crazed fan, who frequently turned up on sets of gardening shows
Gardening TV presenter Diarmuid Gavin
has told how he was stalked by a crazed female fan who broke into his
home and confronted his heavily-pregnant wife.
Mr Gavin, who has hosted Gardeners’
World on the BBC, said he endured months of fear after being followed by
the woman who frequently turned up on the set of shows.
He said it was ‘hard to get the police
to do anything’ but the BBC hired a private detective and after Mr
Gavin and Alan Titchmarsh challenged the unnamed stalker at a flower
show her disturbing behaviour ended abruptly.
Mr Gavin, 47, recalled: ‘I’ve had some
strange fans over the years but she was a proper stalker and for a long
time I was the only one who’d ever seen this woman. She was always
there.
‘It got so bad I was scared I’d arrive
on set one day and someone would say, ‘‘this is your new producer’’ or
I’d go home and find her having tea with my wife.
‘She broke into my house. My wife,
Justine, was there and she was pregnant. This woman said to her, ‘‘I’m
in love with your husband’’, and my wife said, ‘‘in that case, you need
to see a doctor’’.’
Yesterday the Mail reported that for
this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Mr Gavin has designed a seven-storey
‘skyscraper’ made of scaffolding poles topped off with a rusty car and a
clump of nettles.
He said the 80ft-high garden was inspired by the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
His design for last year’s show, The Irish Sky Garden, was a garden within a pod suspended from a crane.
Confrontation: Diarmuid and his wife Justine Keen. The woman told his wife she was in love with Diarmuid when she broke into her house when she was heavily pregnant
Dairmuid,
who grew up in Dublin, first decided to become a gardener after
resolving to change the identikit borders of his middle-class suburban
neighbours.
His first job
was in a Dublin garden centre and he then won a place at the College of
Amenity Horticulture in Dublin’s Botanic Gardens.
The determined gardening ace then set
up a garden design business but his inventive and unorthodox approach
initially failed to take off – leaving him homeless aged 30.
He persevered and featured at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1996.
Alan Titchmarsh interviewed Dairmuid following his success and his television career took off.
Diarmuid has since appeared on Home Front in the Garden, This Morning, Diarmuid’s Big Adventure and Strictly Come Dancing.
‘I was very intimidated at first – it was scary but unbelievable at the same time,’ he said.
Sting operation: Diarmuid, far right, and fellow television gardener Alan Titchmarsh, centre, decided to confront the woman and managed to lure her in front of the camera at a flower show and then the woman relented
‘I always had faith something good would happen, though I never once thought I’d become a TV gardener. That was never on the radar.
‘When I thought about it, I thought of Gardener’s World, which was never a programme I watched or had any interest in.
‘But when nobody has ever asked you to do something and it’s always been such a fight just to be wanted, you’re going to go for it.’
He quickly became known as the bad
boy of gardening, but had to reign back his party lifestyle after the
birth of his daughter Eppie in 2004.
Last
year, his exhibition at the Chelsea Flower Show, The Irish Sky Garden,
was a large garden pod suspended by a 250-tonne crane over a ground
garden.
It has since been purchased by the Irish Government and will be put on permanent display in a public park in Cork.
Sky high: Last year, Diarmuid’s exhibition at the Chelsea Flower Show, The Irish Sky Garden, was a large garden pod suspended by a 250-tonne crane over a ground garden
This year, his Westland Magical Tower will be the show’s tallest and biggest exhibit, soaring 80ft in the sky.
He added: ‘I couldn’t create something that was for pure beauty or a space to relax in, but so many people can do pretty gardens better than me.
‘All I’ve ever wanted to do was something that grabs people and makes them smile.’
Diarmuid Gavin was the guest speaker at Floral Guernsey’s Spring Festival Week, sponsored by Resolution Limited.
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Dishy guy! Great designs! Clever wife!
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I still remember the giant mirrored egg he inflicted on a garden in luton when I lived there…..Pitiful. And as for the potato – faced imbecile being a “hearthrob”, well, I give up.
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I can’t imagine teenage girls screaming as they run after him in the street to be perfectly honest.
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Great new idea for a teatime cop show! Call it ‘Diamond Titchy’!
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Will never forget in The Apprentice a few years ago, contestants had to ask celebs for things to give towards a chariy auction, and Diarmuid gave a £7,000 motorbike!! Eamonn Holmes gave tickets to see his breakfast tv show being filmed.
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I might be wrong but I dont think he has ever “hosted” GW. I think he may have been a presenter or appeared in some insert films but he has never “hosted” it.
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Heartthrob is taking the description a tad too far!
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. This woman said to her, ‘‘I’m in love with your husband’’, and my wife said, ‘‘in that case, you need to see a doctor’’.’
Haha what a put down !!!!
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He’s more weed than oak.
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The Damien Hirst of the gardening world. Remember the story about the Emperor’s new clothes?
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Flower & Garden Festival Draws 24000—Landscape Design Winners Announced
River’s Edge Landscapers
River’s Edge Landscapers won the top award—Best Overall Presentation—taking home the top prize of $750 at the 2012 Leesburg Flower Garden Festival.
Wildwood Landscape
Past Leesburg Flower Garden Festival award winners Wildwood Landscape took home accolades for Outstanding Creativity Design at the 2012 event. Their entry, lit by streetlight, is pictured above.
West Winds Nursery
West Winds Nursery took home the award for Outstanding Technical Craftsmanship at the 2012 Leesburg Flower Garden Festival. Above, lit by work lights the evening before the show, crew members can be seen assembling West Winds’ winning entry.
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Despite miserable weather during the last day of the event, the 2012 Leesburg Flower Garden Festival was a success, packing in the crowds on a beautiful April 21, who enjoyed what many come to regard as the opening salvo of spring.
According to Special Events Supervisor Rachael Goodwin, the weather “was not as bad as it could have been,” noting predictions had included rain and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon, none of which materialized. An estimated 21,000 visitors strolled the downtown April 21 and, amazingly, she said, about 3,000 hardy souls braved cold, wet weather April 22.
Vendors were happy with sales at the outset of the festival, with one vendor telling Goodwin it had been “the best one-day ever” during that vendor’s five years at the event. She was struck with how visitors Saturday came in early, well before the scheduled 10 a.m. opening.
This year’s landscaping contest produced three winners under the new format established by the festival committee and Town of Leesburg Parks and Public Spaces Planner and landscape designer Bill Ference, who handles the contest.
The three landscape designers are no strangers to the winner’s circle but this was a first time under the new arrangement. River’s Edge Landscapers won for the Best Overall Presentation, taking home the top award of $750. Winner of the Outstanding Creativity design was Wildwood Landscape, and West Winds Nursery took home the award for Outstanding Technical Craftsmanship. The latter two award winners received $500 each.
River’s Edge had a lot of landscape details, Ference said, including “nice vertical elements and different colors of brick, as well as a rounded top wooden door in the wall.” Plant material was good, and the landscape exhibit had very good, special labels to add a final touch, Ference said.
Several time contest winner Wildwood Landscape showed the company’s trademark creativity in incorporating a greenhouse into the overall design, with a nice ramped path leading up, Ference said.
Another past winner, West Winds Nursery had a good mix of high quality plant material, a nice pond and good features including a very large boulder five-to-six-feet long set up to form a bench, plus other big rocks covered with moss and a trellis, according to Ference.
He said he was pleased with the new format. “The judges really liked it,” he said, appreciating the way the designers were able to show different design facets. Judges were Robert Jackson, a landscape designer from Leesburg and Dave Scheid, head of the Northern Virginia Community College Horticultural Division.
Looking ahead to the 2013 festival, Goodwin quipped, “all I want is two nice days—maybe one year I’ll get it.”
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Antiques & Garden Fair Preview Evening raises almost $250000 for the Chicago …
April 30, 2012 4:08PM
Antiques Garden Fair Preview Co-chairmen Cathy Busch (from left) of Winnetka, Jen Kasten of Chicago and Peggy Swartchild of Winnetka | Photo courtesy of Cheri Eisenberg
EVENT: Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques Garden Fair Preview
BENEFITING: Chicago Botanic Garden programs
DATE: April 19, 2012
LOCATION: Chicago Botanic Garden
ATTENDED: 750
RAISED: $250,000
GALLERY: 29 pictures
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Updated: April 30, 2012 7:21PM
Close to 750 guests enjoyed the Chicago Botanic Garden’s first spring garden party and priority shopping on April 19 at the recent Antiques Garden Fair Preview Evening. The event raised almost $250,000 for the Chicago Botanic Garden’s conservation, education and research programs. Preview partygoers dined on a selection of sumptuous dishes prepared by Jewell Events as they shopped an exquisite array of antiques from 120 exhibitors from the United States and Europe.
The Preview Evening was co-chaired by Cathy Busch of Winnetka, Jen Kasten of Chicago and Peggy Swartchild of Winnetka.
Returning for its twelfth year, the Antiques Garden Fair featured lectures by famed interior designer and Honorary Chair David Easton of New York and former head gardener at Highgrove and Special Guest David Howard of England. Both speakers attended the Preview Evening. Local landscape companies and designers created indoor display gardens to fit in the theme “Around the Garden Table,” including Craig Bergmann Landscape Design, Inc., William Heffernan Landscapes, Rosborough Partners, Schmechtig Landscapes with Susan Fredman Design Group, and Maria Smithburg with Manfredini Landscaping and Design.
The Antiques Garden Fair was produced in conjunction with Stella Show Mgmt. Co., New York. Co-producers of the 2012 Antiques Garden Fair were Donna LaPietra of Mettawa, Jane O’Neil of Lake Bluff, and Susan Canmann of Winnetka; artistic director is Bill Heffernan. Principal sponsor was BMO Harris Bank. Supporting sponsors were American Airlines and Blackman Kallick.
The Chicago Botanic Garden, one of the treasures of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, is a 385-acre living plant museum featuring 24 distinct display gardens and four natural areas. With events, programs and activities for all ages, the Garden is open every day of the year. Admission is free; select event fees apply. Parking is $20 per car; free for Garden members. Located at 1000 Lake Cook Road in Glencoe, Ill., the Garden is smoke free.
Visit chicagobotanic.org, or call (847) 835-5440 for seasonal hours, images of the Garden and commuter transportation information.