Article: Traditional garden ornaments.(Design notes)(Garden Traditions )(Company overview)

Small garden, small ornament; large garden, large ornament" are the common sense words of advice given by Barbara Israel, the noted authority on garden ornaments. Israel's earliest contact with gardens was as a child growing up in Peapack, New Jersey, where she would sneak onto the grounds of Blairsden, the magnificent estate with formal gardens built by C. Ledyard Blair in the early twentieth century. As described in a New York Times wedding announcement for Blair's daughter in 1913, the estate was rich with shrubbery and trees, a lagoon bordered by stone coping on which were placed huge stone vases filled with seasonal flowers, and a driveway lined with busts of twelve ...

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