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Thursday, April 15, 2010

More About Gordon Hayward's Gardens

Get a load of these magnificent garden settings!!!!!

In 1978, Gordon Hayward began writing for Horticulture Magazine, where he has since published over fifty articles. He now is a contributing editor for Fine Gardening Magazine. Gordon Hayward has also written nine books, six of which remain in print. *See below at the bottom of my post









L E S S O N S   T O   B E   L E A R N E D   
F R O M   V I S I T I N G   G A R D E N S 

"Visiting a garden, whether public or private, is a rare treat, in part because it can help us see our own garden more clearly. What we get out of visiting a garden, however, is not up to the garden; it’s up to us to ask the right questions. Too often we don’t get all we could out of a visit because we walk into a fine garden looking to see what we like and don’t like about it. Our own judgmental attitudes get in the way of learning new principles of garden design. And once we pass judgment, we often limit ourselves to the question, “What’s that plant?” In this one-hour lecture, Hayward will show 40 pairs of slides he has taken of grand gardens through America and England. Throughout he will show you how to look at grand gardens so as to gather new ideas for your own more modest garden. This lecture comes out of an article Gordon Hayward wrote for the April, 2002 issue of Horticulture Magazine." 
ABOVE: Rosemary Alexander’s Garden in England
 
Gordon Hayward







Planning,planning,planning.




T H E   W I N T E R   G A R D E N

When designing a garden that is interesting 12 months of the year, those of us who live in the northern half of the United States must carefully consider what our garden looks like in the winter. During the seven month growing season colors and textures abound, but in late October we cut back perennials, remove annuals and bring in delicate garden ornaments and furniture, thereby exposing the layout and structural elements of our gardens. Those elements form the backbone of the winter garden, and they lie in gazeboes, pergolas and garden sheds, as well as in paths, hedges, stonewalls, evergreens and lasting perennials such as ornamental grasses. Detail within that structure lies in winter-tolerant garden ornaments, as well as the form, line and color in twig and fruit of many deciduous trees and shrubs. Because we spend so much more time in the house in winter, view-lines from doors and windows into our winter gardens become especially important. In this one hour lecture, Gordon Hayward uses pairs of slides that both he and Richard Brown, a professional garden photographer, took to show around fifty different places in the Haywards’one and one half acre garden in both summer and winter in order to illustrate design principles you can apply to your own garden to give it greater winter interest.
ABOVE: A design for a garden in Southern New Hampshire.

Want more?
You can stay at this cottage. Click here.
They think the North Cotswolds is the most beautiful part of England. Somebody must agree because the whole area, including Blockley, was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty a few years ago.
His Books:


Gordon and Mary Hayward
508 McKinnon Road
Putney VT 05346

802.387.4766

email: gordonhayward@comcast.net

I can't get enough.
Can you?

XX's


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Monday, April 12, 2010

It's Coming On Springtime....



Gorden Hayward 




is a brilliant landscape designer.



Hayward offers amateur landscapers these guidelines:

"
Don't be afraid of straight lines in forming bed edges, lawn shape, and paths, especially near the house. After all, your house is geometric; make beds near it geometric, too. Then let beds and paths curve as you get away from the house."





"......avoid putting all planting beds around the perimeter of your house 
and the outer perimeter of the lawn. "












Is your garden ready for spring?


Read the article in Traditional Home here.


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Friday, April 9, 2010

Meet Buster Barman

I am Buster Barman.
My Dad is JOHN BARMAN.
Here is my Dad. 
with Ali Wentworth, one of his Manhattan clients.

I know a kid  thinks that their Dad's are handsome....
but, my Dad is.
  And he is a design genius too!
These are just a few of the design jobs that my dad has done.
This one is in N.Y.C.
And that's where I live with with my Dad too.
I will show you my house in another post 
if Renee will let me, 
Buster Barman,
come back and do this  'guest blogging' 
bit again. 

*ask her to have me back when you leave a comment.

Have you seen a black sofa like this one?
I always thought that the colors in this room were scrumptious.
Renee said that she loves the colors, the antique chairs, including the all the other 
eclectic touches that make this space a design winner.
This is an old job....
you can tell from the quality of the picture's reproduction.
I had to scan this one from an old magazine.
But it was published. And that is something!! Right?
My Dad is great.
Check out the dining chairs....
they don't match, but they match.

This a cozy spot.  I can't remember where this shot was taken....
but 
I seem to remember taking a well deserved nap on those red stripes.
Sometimes watching Dad work makes me tired.
Speaking of tired, my paw and my index toe is getting tired from all this typing.
Cool huh?
My dad, John Barman did the Manhattan apartment of George Stephanopoulos and his wife, Ali Wentworth. Their art collection includes a work by Peter Dayton and a series by Jeffrey Lewis in the living room and a Donald Sultan painting in the dining room beyond. Armchair and sofa fabrics, Bergamo.
(architectural digest)
My Dad,  John Barman installed paneling in the dining room, 
then painted it bright orange. I love it!
Below you can go to a home in Ohio that my Dad did.
It was in Architectural Digest.
And let me just say 
that I am intimately familiar with the grounds.

They are Lovely. Don't you Agree?

Buster Barman

I know a kid might think that their Dad can do anything, 
that nothing is impossible, that no mountain is too high, 
but it is true when it comes to my Dad - John Barman.

Would you guys like to say anything to 
'Buster Barman?'
* be nice....remember....
it is his Daddy.
Should I have Buster back for another post?
Buster is interested in design and has told me that he has much to say on the subject.

John Barman  
click here for some Architectural Digest.
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About Renée Finberg

I have been in this business since the age of 22.

I love what I do and cannot imagine my life without Design.

Design Challenges are great.

And because of those challenges

I have imported fine antique pieces from Paris,

Designed and Manufactured Furniture,

Created Fantastic Window Treatments,

And solved all kinds of spatial & architectural issues

With my unique style.

If I can't find it, I create it.

My rooms would make excellent movie sets.

I am a visual, tactile and audio sensitive individual.

Creating is what I live for, not math, not spelling, not science.

Just Great Design.

Just imagine how it would be if each of us,

If only for a few hours of everyday,We could be in a space that is our very own.A place that is exactly the way we want it to be

Surrounded by all the things we wanted to see,

The atmosphere we wanted feel, smell and the sound we wanted to listen to.

Private Paradise

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