Jean Zimmerman

Tag: gardening

  • What is common?

    It’s in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it? I took a walk on the Old Croton Aqueduct trail as spring just came up, and it got me to thinking. So many beautiful things. So many of them so ordinary. First, a sign warning me off. My favorite kind of sign, so commonplace. I see…

  • Stumperies and critter holes and other mysteries

    await at Untermeyer Gardens in Yonkers, New York. Yes, the famous property — designed in 1916 to be “the finest garden in the world” — now features a Stumpery. The park once boasted sixty greenhouses. It’s still pretty nice. Just what is a Stumpery? You would be well within your rights to ask the question,…