Category Archives: Stonework

Spring Projects 2018.

Posted on June 25, 2018 by

Spring is the season of the big clean-up after winter. Weeks are spent cutting back perennials, dividing, transplanting plants, moving plants, shaping shrubs, edging paths, and weeding, Once the initial cleanup is done, I usually begin a few new garden … Continue reading →

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Fieldstone Path Planted with Woolly Thyme

Posted on May 30, 2017 by

Around the 1870’s bluestone quarries were booming in the Catskills providing large cut slabs of slate for the sidewalks in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Toronto and many towns and cities in the northeast. My wife and I were waiting … Continue reading →

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Bluestone Patio and Walkway- before and after

Posted on March 22, 2014 by

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I have had more repining on Pinterest of my blue stone terrace than any other photo I have posted. I know how much people like ‘before and after shots’- I like them too – so I thought I would show … Continue reading →

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Hortus Conclusus: The “Enclosed Garden”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

 “As a flower grows concealed in an enclosed garden, unknown to the cattle, bruised by no plough, which the breezes caress, the sun makes strong, and the rain brings out; many boys and many girls long for it.” Gaius Valerius … Continue reading →

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Stone Works

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

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My house is built into a slope and I have very few flat areas in the garden. I recently designed, and at this very moment I am having built, a patio at the back of our house just off the … Continue reading →

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