HOME & DESIGN

Your Tropical Paradise

By Anne Halpin
August 19, 2020

Who knows if we’ll be able to head to the islands this winter? But you can create your own tropical getaway right here outside your house, on your deck or patio, or in your garden...

Heavenly Scents

By Anne Halpin
July 22, 2020

Colorful flowers in a summer garden are pure delight and for many of us, an essential part of the joy of the season...

Deck Decor

By Anne Halpin
June 24, 2020

Colorful plantings help Bring the deck into the landscape...

A Garden Grows on the East End

By Anne Halpin
May 15, 2020

In spring and summer flower gardens come back to life across the East End. Spring is the season of bulbs and perennials, and the earliest annual flowers...

Whether your house is new or old, whether its style is formal or informal, modern, contemporary or historic, it’s not really complete without landscaping. The landscape unites the home with its setting, anchoring the house to the land and making the property a coherent whole...

Winter is Coming

By Anne Halpin
October 23, 2019

As the days grow shorter and temperatures dip, landscapes across the Hamptons prepare for winter. The landscape sheds the finery of its summer flowers and brilliant autumn foliage and reveals its bones...

Wee Trees

By Anne Halpin
September 20, 2019

Flowers bless the world with their colors for just a short time – most perennials bloom for only a few weeks and annuals are gone in fall. But woody plants – ...

Glorious Grasses

By Anne Halpin
August 26, 2019

Are you in search of the perfect seashore plants – plants with an informal, beachy feel that are easy to grow, don’t need much in the way of care, and look great all summer long – even into fall? Plants that don’t need spraying or primping, that aren’t ...