Her creative gardening skill is shown in the unusually imaginative and colorful gardens she created in Sheep Meadow, the family's summer retreat in North Haven, Maine.
It's impossible for me to say, "O.K., this is my office life, my creative office life, and that is my creative garden life".
So forgive my excitement about this steampunk party: the small universe of artists, artisans, welders, carpenters, tall-bicycle clubs, DIY flotilla builders and hundreds of other restlessly creative garden-variety freaks the original gentrifiers who plowed their way through deserted industrial Brooklyn nearly 20 years ago are nothing short of fascinating to me.
People here are forced to be creative, making gardens out of seemingly unusable land.
"It makes the birds look like they're just sitting there in a garden". If you want to get creative, the garden is exactly where they'll be.
Then, the children move on to cultural activities such as creative writing, gardening and music.
She will be opening it May 16 for a one-day public tour -- one of 10 scheduled on Long Island through May -- as part of the nonprofit Garden Conservancy's Open Days, an annual nationwide program meant to stoke interest in creative home gardening.
"Richard is one of a number of provocative, creative people in gardens, in horticulture, in public parks, who are genuinely changing the approach".
Here he has joined the "Grey Gardens" creative team for the musicalization of a movie — the lush 2002 homage to Douglas Sirk's febrile melodramas, in which racial and sexual taboos topple in a seemingly idyllic Connecticut town in 1957.
I think sometimes we score an extraordinary own-goal by putting so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect; to have immaculate homes, to be creative with our gardens and have lovely well-dressed children - and what's it all about really?
