Inspiration for the aesthete who pursues artful living exalted by nature, beauty, harmony; igniting curiosity & sparking conversations.
“There is inspiration all around us, all you’ve got to do is look.”
- Elizabeth Taylor
The Garden Glamour blog is the “Little Black Dress” for an entertaining lifestyle. My passion for beauty, art, nature, & culture offers you transporting stories about a decorous, creative, lifestyle that inspires and charms. Celebrating & elevating the art of hospitality with tablescapes & barscapes; homegrown food, garden-to-glass drinks; botanic & interior~exterior design events & headline news; garden design & horticulture; bountiful tips, as well as insouciant anecdotes about the humbling, glorious, glamorous world of beguiling gardens.
Discover the Chapters…
Cocktail culture demands glamour!
Alluring, spirited Drinks to celebrate the joy of life! Every drink tells a story: Make your Happy Hours delicious and pretty and personal, featuring original bespoke, hand-crafted recipes and their stories. Drink with the Seasons! I share my Garden-to-Glass cocktail creations and their glamorous Garnishes for every occasion.
Tablescapes & barscapes spark romance, fantasy & wonder.
The eyes eat first! These posts are filled with inspiration for committed home entertainers. Party food for elegant entertaining at home. Recipes, glamorous presentations and more.
Every good garden design tells a story and starts with a dream…
Garden Shows, Garden History, Lectures, Tours.
Every good garden design tells a story. My award-winning, sensual and seasonal garden design guidance and tips help you create glamorous, sustainable home gardens, along with Horticultural Best Practices on when to plant, prune, fertilize, harvest and be the Best Plant Parent!
Duchess Reads
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” - Ancient Cultural Proverb
The metaphor captures the magic of books ~ they are brimming with beauty, wonder, tranquility, power, and wisdom; they inspire us to grow and flourish, much like a garden does. We can “get lost” in the book, like one can get lost wandering in a garden. Words and Books expose us to ideas and great pleasure. As a child we learn early-on to beg our elders to “Tell me a story.” Stories are the transporting adventures that make us book lovers.
And like true love, there’s that mystical element that motivates us to want to share our stories and ourselves; to lend a book, to discover, to gather for a reading…
Spend time with the inspiring Ladies Who Lunch Conversations.
My artful guests explore the captivating, candid, & inspiring stories about their extraordinary lives, passions, careers; their meditation on life~that is sure to enrich ours. These inspiring women share challenges & tips on how to turn a dream into a well-lived life.
Duchess: Death Doula
“Life is for the Living. Eternity is for the Fabulous.” Death Becomes Her.
I love life so much and all of its rich beauty. However, as Jim Morrison famously said, “No one gets out alive.” Yet all, or most of us, never prepare for this inevitability; this next adventure. I invite you to discover this beautiful journey of the human experience ~ how to live on with loss and love… “Where there is deep grief there is great love.
Grief is a deeply personal rite of passage."
Duchess Picks
Here are my favorite, Garden Glamour-tested products that I’ve shopped especially for you ~ from garden tools, plants, seeds, lighting and garden art to tablescape and barscape accessories, floral arrangement design materials, Barcart spirits, and hospitality gifts ideas for the guests or the hosts.
