Garden
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News
Is Your Garden Missing Something? You May Need a Large Pot (or Several).
An imposing work of pottery can be as important to the design of a landscape as any well-placed plant. And no, we’re not talking about flower pots.
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World
Gardens of Stone, Moss, Sand: 4 Moments of Zen in Kyoto
Once, when the Buddha was asked to preach about a flower he was presented, he instead “gazed at it in silence,” according to the British garden designer Sophie Walker in her book “The Japanese Garden.” In this spiritual moment Zen Buddhism was born ...
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Newyork
Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?
Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait.
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Newyork
How to Host a Proper English Pub Lunch
The chef Margot Henderson on gathering friends for a meal at the Three Horseshoes inn in Somerset and the perfect winter dessert.
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Books
Frick Leader to Step Down After a 14-Year Run
Having seen the museum’s controversial renovation through to completion, Ian Wardropper plans to retire in 2025.
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News
Annual Vines Can Transform Your Garden in a Single Season. Here’s How.
Whether you want cut flowers or a striking vertical display, these seeds will flourish in no time — given the right support.
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Books
‘Gardens of Anuncia’ Review: The Broadway Star and the Women Who Molded Her
Michael John LaChiusa’s beautifully sung tribute to sisterly admiration, starring Priscilla Lopez, was inspired by the early life of the show’s director, Graciela Daniele.
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News
Owner of Chelsea Piers Lists His Upper West Side Townhouse
Roland W. Betts and his wife, Lois Betts, are asking $9.5 million for their home on West 102nd Street, where Eleanor Roosevelt’s father once lived.
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Newyork
My Kind of October Surprise
In Middle Tennessee, October is supposed to mean golden light and falling leaves and clear nights cool enough to make you spread a blanket across the foot of the bed in case the chill turns to genuine cold. October doesn’t normally bring an explosion ...
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Newyork
Poem: Jobs for the Weekend
The work of the garden is never merely human work. The animals, insects and plants join in labor with the gardener, sometimes in harmony with human plans, but just as often thwarting or diverting them. This is one way a garden becomes a paradox: Its ...
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