One thing I did this summer that has to do with gardens is the Garden Hoax. ( A “hoax” according to our friend and ex assistant, Joe Labolito is a jaunt you go on for no other reason than you want to go on it.)<\/p>\n
Several friends, (Jane and Jane and Margie and Sally and Pam and Mike and I), from college, Moore College of Art and Design<\/a>, ( just Moore College of Art back in the day), get together each year for a couple of days and visit gardens. ( I call it a hoax but the others may call it something else.)<\/p>\n We’ve done Longwood Gardens<\/a> in PA, White Flower Farm<\/a> in Connecticut and several wonderful gardens in Long Island including Jack Lenor Larson’s LongHouse<\/a> and Marders Nursery<\/a>. Different members of the group volunteer to set it up, so this year Jane and I set it up.<\/p>\n We all stayed at the Thomas Bond House<\/a>, a colonial inn for a bit of city and yea olde Philadelphia, ate at great restaurants and gabbed all night.<\/p>\n We chose Chanticleer<\/a>, outside of Philadelphia, a most wonderful “Pleasure Garden’ and a visit to the garden\/studio of another Moore Alum, Janie Gross<\/a> who is a designer of pressed flowers – she doesn’t just press flowers but has a most wonderful book full of her photographs of them – The After Life of Flowers<\/em> and flower pillows for sale in Kohl’s and lots of other fantastic irons in the fire! She’s studied flower pressing in Japan and been on Martha Stewart – just a terrific artist. – and I do her web site! – Saw Janie in the morning, had lunch and Chanticleer in the afternoon. – Debbie came along also!<\/p>\n I don’t do a lot of things with “the girls” – any girls – what with teaching and working in the studio so this is a major treat and I so look forward to it. Margie started it off and I thank her very much.<\/p>\n Oh, and while I don’t do Sally’s site, if you have a little dog and are nutsy about it, you should visit her site, plaiddogs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing I did this summer that has to do with gardens is the Garden Hoax. ( A “hoax” according to our friend and ex assistant, Joe Labolito is a jaunt you go on for no other reason than you want to go on it.) Several friends, (Jane and Jane and Margie and Sally and… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,58,2],"tags":[43,57,380],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","category-friends","category-garden-chat","tag-moore-college-of-art-and-design","tag-hoax","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}