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February 27, 2006
Gramercy Garden Antiques Show
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The Gramercy Garden Antiques Show, which is coming up this Friday (March 3), features all sorts of garden ornaments, furniture, pots, planters, books and even a few (very few) plants. Last year there were enough ornate (read, uncomfortable) Victorian garden benches and chairs to make the point that something can be "antique" and "mass produced" at the same time. There are eighty exibitors, and in other years the booths have been decorated to evoke a romantic, slightly faded, garden fantasy. In the past, we at Citygardenguide have frequently found ourselves dreaming of how some of the truly beautiful pieces found at the show would look in our gardens. A glance at the price tags is always a sobering reality check. The $19 entrance fee includes a year's subscription to Garden Design magazine, and the proceeds from the Thursday night preview party (much more expensive) go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (Their Bronx rival NYBG, sponsors its own garden ornament show in April.) Garden Design and BBG are co-sponsoring a series of garden seminars, at 12pm and 2pm each day.
Gramercy Garden Antiques Show March 3-4 11am-7pm, March 5 11am-5pm 69th Regiment Armory Lexington Ave @ 26th Street New YorkLink: Stella Shows
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February 21, 2006
Hanging Pots
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If you are interested in modern design and plants and gardens, there are not a lot of design options out there; the gardening world is still very traditional, and modernists tend to be more interested in form and new materials than plants. So we were pleasantly surprised to learn about this wall hanging on Land+Living. Designed by Vincent Vandenbrouk for a French firm called Edition Compagnie, it's made of either 8 or 12 terra cotta pots suspended with stainless steel cables. We thought it looked so cool we immediately tried to figure out where to hang it and started to fantasize about green walls. Alas, the fantasy dissolved when we thought about the challenge of putting actual plants in those pots and watering them regularly.
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February 04, 2006
Take Advantage
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Those of us addicted to garden literature have often envied English writers who seem to be constantly rushing outside in the dead of winter to count the number of different plants blooming in their gardens. Most years in New York, after you pull on your boots, mittens and hat, you have to be content with admiring the fall of snow on the evergreens or noting the subtle variations of color and texture on the bark of deciduous trees. Not this year. However unnerving it is to have a string of 60 degree days in January and February, let us enjoy this unusual winter. At last, we too can wax poetic about the scent and delicacy of the Witchhazels, the pale green of the filbert catkin and the diminutive snowdrop. Take advantage--Central Park is relatively ablaze, and it's probably going to snow in April.
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