Site & Insight

7 min read 2021-12-31 23:10:43

Goals for a New Year

When I look out my bedroom window, this is what I see. Or what I will see before long. Lake Massawippi isn’t frozen yet, but frozen or not, the

5 min read 2021-12-06 04:23:45

Memorials are not typically found in private gardens. Occasionally you see a marker for a well-loved pet, like the one below that I came across at

1 min read 2021-11-05 22:38:42

Shrubs are a key element at Glen Villa Art Garden, my garden in North Hatley, Quebec. Unfortunately deer like shrubs as much as I do. So when I

1 min read 2021-10-19 23:29:47

When our children were young, I dreaded taking them to the grocery store. If I was lucky, the expedition would be quick and easy. But some days, the

1 min read 2021-09-22 00:04:40

Last week, I spoke at Bishop’s University to a large group os students, faculty, staff and members of the local community. My talk was one in a

1 min read 2021-09-03 21:18:15

Creating a garden isn’t a quick and easy task, particularly a garden that grows out of personal memories and the history of the site. The most

1 min read 2021-07-26 20:25:30

I first visited the Reford Gardens when the government of Quebec was in charge, sometime in the 1980s, I think, when the gardens were not very

1 min read 2021-06-28 02:17:40

In 2005, I started to cut a trail at Glen Villa; that trail became Timelines, the walk through fields and forests where art installations explore

1 min read 2021-06-01 01:54:36

Why do some gardens appeal to us while others leave us cold or indifferent? Is it something in us, in the garden, or in the interaction between the

5 min read 2021-04-22 20:52:32

Yesterday I gave an on-line talk about Glen Villa to a group of well-informed, well-educated women, many of whom attended the same single sex college

6 min read 2021-04-05 20:42:31

Trees are an invaluable part of a garden, so important that they are sometimes called its bones because they hold the other parts of the garden

7 min read 2021-03-21 23:41:45

One year ago, almost to the day, the border between Canada and the U.S. closed. The closing didn’t end all movement back and forth but for all

6 min read 2021-02-23 04:33:12

Recently an article titled “Gardens Need Criticism” was posted on the garden website Veddw. Written by Veddw’s garden maker Anne Wareham and

6 min read 2021-02-02 00:16:14

The great English landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe got it right. What’s past is past. But while it is over and done with, the past

6 min read 2021-01-07 23:20:13

In January last year, I laid out six garden goals for the year ahead, never believing I’d be able to achieve them all. I put them on paper