Tag: Lee Buttala

Properties for enjoying the best of the Berkshires. An LEED rated home in Great Barrington, from Martha Piper of William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty, offers you a view of thousands of beautiful Berkshire acres. And homes with fireplaces for keeping warm while waiting for Saint Nick!

Lee Buttala tells you things you never knew, about how much plants and humans depend on each other.

According to our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala, if politicians looked to the natural world and to Darwin for inspiration, we might all find ourselves inhabiting a better universe.

What happens when someone else now owns the gardens that once were yours? Lee Buttala shares his personal reactions.

Forget the traditional oranges and golds. Our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala opens our eyes to a different fall palette.

Our Self-Taught Gardener discovers that the window boxes of Nantucket exhibit a palette range all their own.

A tropical Thai garden that can survive in Madison, Wisconsin? It is colorful, and otherworldly (at least for us northerners).

For our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttalia, it is plants, not buildings, that make L.A.

Partly creepy, partly divine, a Georgia plantation teaches our Self-Taught Gardener a lesson in tolerance and diversity.

Each element is set before you to change your pace, or cause you to look up at a view, or to simply give you pause to notice a fern, some artfully laid stonework, or to stop and hear the sound of the world around you.