• What: AT's New York Design Meetup
• Guest: Margaret Roach
• Members: 1,573 (rsvp here)
• When: 6:30 - 8:30pm, Wednesday, March 10
• Where: Knoll Showroom, 76 9th Avenue, Floor 11, NYC
Join us this month as Maxwell chats with Margaret Roach — the gardening enthusiast behind the blog A Way to Garden and a friend of Apartment Therapy from her days at Martha Stewart Living, where she was the editorial director for many years. We'll kick off the night with a member of the group sharing his or her design challenged room and then Margaret will share her story and expert gardening tips — just in time for Spring!
ABOUT MARGARET & A WAY TO GARDEN:
AWayToGarden.com, born March 2008, is the latest horticultural incarnation of me, Margaret Roach, with my own words and photographs (taken here in my Hudson Valley, New York, garden) as its DNA. You can visit 24/7/365 online, or come visit on tour or workshop days.
The blog (which people always think is Away to Garden, rather than A Way, as in my way) is named for a book I wrote early in my garden career, and in the life of my garden. "A Way to Garden" was named best garden book of 1998 by the Garden Writers Association of America, and is now a collector’s item.
I have been writing about gardening for more than 20 years; in my previous lives I was garden editor at Newsday (one of the country’s largest dailies) and then for Martha Stewart where I was the first garden editor of Living and later editorial director of the magazines, books and internet.
I "retired" in 2008 (at a very young age, thank you) to my 2.3-acre garden, bordering on the Berkshires of Massachusetts. I walked away from a fancy job and "success" to explore personal creativity again — something executives don’t get to do much between meetings.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend and we hope to see you all then!
Interested in sharing your designed challenged room? Send us 3-5 photos of your problem room, a floor plan, along with a sentence explaining what you feel your biggest challenge is, and as a group we'll cure it! Please email saram@apartmenttherapy.com and we’ll contact the owner of the selected room. We can’t wait to make suggestions and hopefully connect you with aspiring interior designers that may be in the crowd.
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creepy picture....
I have to agree! Kinda funny, really (sorry!).
I remember seeing this house in an issue of Martha.
What is she doing to that poor cat? :(
in the pic on the tractor she looks good, but that is a strange, strange main pic...
(it did get me to click through, though!)
And then there are the weasel tails . . . I like a collection as much as anyone, but . . .
The green pics are beautiful, but the first and last are both creepy.
Beautiful home.
Hahaha (re: the photo).
Don't worry, Jack the Demon Cat is right here on his padded throne beside me, well cared for. No torture, promise.
He's a giant of an animal and rather wild, hence the madcap moment captured in the pic. But don't send the ASPCA or anything; he's much loved.
Such a gorgeous home, love the frog pond!
That IS a really big cat! Ha ha!
love the modern adirondack chairs! would you mind sharing where they're from?
The chairs were built by adapting the pattern you can buy at Wave Hill, the world-class public garden in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, NYC.
We heavied up all the stock and then (obviously) painted them -- a chartreuse pair, a red pair, a lavender pair -- to move around the garden at different times to brighten things.
Pattern Wave Hill sells for $10 is based on WWI-era design by a Dutch architect, Gerrit Rietveld (whose original is in MOMA I think). Anyhow, the link to buy pattern:
http://www.wavehill.org/shop/WaveHillChairPlans.html
Beautiful photos. The house looks like it really belongs in its setting.
Absolutely stunning! Love the house and the grounds.
She looks like she got caught in the act of trying to kill that poor cat.
Wow, cool cat! The yard is so inviting and beautiful. And um... weasel free...
Amazing gardens!
And Weasel Breath is a very handsome boy!
I like reading her blog...very fun! I'm very envious of her gardens. ;)
thanks for the chairs tip! we are getting ready to tackle 2.5 long-neglected acres and this inspiration came at the perfect time...
Captain Pike(Star Trek) first thing I thought of when I saw that picture.
I could eat these landscape photos up. (No weasel tails for me, thanks. They sure are funny, though.)
My mother-in-law lives way out in the country and I get a kick out of how she parks her orange Kubota tractor next to her orange Corvette.
Cheers for pursuing creativity and making beauty flourish. Inspiring.
As much as I like Wave Hill and want to support it, Rietveld chair plans can also be found elsewhere and free.
http://treough.googlepages.com/RB1.pdf
and through Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_and_Blue_Chair
My grandfather made his own plans and made a full scale as well as a couple children's versions for his first great grandkids. I have the full scale one in my apartment and it is surprisingly comfortable for such a stylish and angular beast.
Love this blog. I think the weasel display is funny. We have a big, beefy male cat who lived on the mean streets for many years before we adopted him. He is always so proud of his mice gifts to us. He too uses the "are you done yet?" face in every picture.
That landscape is gorgeous! Love the cat too.
wait, what's so strange and creepy about the main picture? am I missing something or did it get changed?
OK, WOW what a beautiful garden... when your cat eats a weasel and it brings you the tail is it really necessary to display this collection or to save them for that matter!?
I love the first photo! What's creepy? It's just like that garden was here in British Columbia.
The weasel tails are a bit odd, but cats are a bit odd. I can't say I would keep them - I never keep the dead bats George brings me, either. ;)