Pleaching: The art of training trees
The use of pleached trees to establish the architecture of a garden is one of the defining aspects of 17th and 18th-century design, particularly in France and Italy. Traditionally used to demarcate grand allées or to enclose intimate spaces, pleached trees had, until recently, fallen out of widespread use. Now, following their appearance in Chelsea Flower Show gardens, often in the form of “hedges on stilts,” enthusiasm for pleached trees is filtering across the country. Related forms of manipulation are also popular – tree “ceilings” and tunnels, for example, can be seen for sale in large garden centres.
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Six Board Blanket Chest
Matt and I are just getting ready to unload our bounty of Eastern White Pine. Here we each have chose a couple hundred board feet of boards. We even had some extra to sell to a couple colleagues.
I along with several of my fellow colleagues we had a rare opportunity to purchase some local Eastern White Pine from one of the Homebuilding editors this summer. He had a neighbor who wanted to cut down a few very large trees adjacent to his property. Ceasing on this he arranged to have the large trees cut down and sawn up for lumber at a mill in northern Connecticut. Then to defer the costs he was willing to sell the boards at a very reasonable price. Hence
The Real Estate Corner: Rent Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago Home
Oprah Winfrey is one of those people who you can’t define. A true trailblazer, Winfrey is a philanthropist, producer, actress and former talk show host. Best known for her 25 years on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ she later founded her OWN Network to include various talents like Rosie O’ Donnell and Lisa Ling. In addition to her ventures on-screen, Lady Winfrey has seen great success with projects like Oprah’s Angel Network, O, The Oprah Magazine, Oprah Radio and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. Now that View more…
The All-New Gilt Home
Last week Gilt Home debuted a newly revamped site which, if you haven’t already, you should check out ASAP! In addition to its popular daily flash sales, Gilt Home now offers curated boutiques by top interior designers , ongoing collections of luxury and to-the-trade only items that you can purchase 24/7 and expanded editorial content overseen by Tom Delavan who you may remember as the former editor-at-large of Domino.
I’m especially loving all of the new lifestyle content that’s full of inspiration and features video, articles and more. All o
cataloguing the holidays: fab.com
You have my apologies for posting about Christmas before Thanksgiving (even though the local big box stores were crowding out the Halloween costumes with lights and tinsel prior to October 31), but for once in my life I thought I’d get a (slight) jump on holiday shopping. I’ve been subscribing to the Fab.com mailing list for awhile. If