George Cain and Jeff Loholdt of William Pitt Sotheby’s Realty offer a classic New England Farmhouse surrounded by 171 spectacular acres. Plus, a selection of winter specials to buy now and enjoy by spring and summer.
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Kim Burnham of Burnham Gold Real Estate offers a charming gentleman’s horse farm, built in the 1760s but perfect for today. Plus, a selection of winter specials to buy now and enjoy by spring and summer.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Giving thanks
As we celebrate the season’s bounty at our Thanksgiving table, our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala is thinking about the alternative feast going on outdoors.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The third movement
Our self-taught gardener Lee Buttala feels that the landscape has a sense of movement like a musical composition, and the music of fall is perhaps the most dramatic of all.
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James Nugent of The Kinderhook Group offers you the opportunity to own an unusually stunning view and a beautiful house from which to enjoy it. Plus,Part 2 of a collection of recently reduced “fall specials.”
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Chapin Fish of Brockman Real Estate offers a magical mountaintop retreat. Plus, a selection of waterfront properties to kick off the summer! And the latest report of real estate sales.
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This week Brandon White and Cortney Dupont of Cohen+White Associates offer a beautiful Berkshire Cottage in Williamstown! A selection of pools to get in the swing of summer!
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Mary Jane White and Brandon White of Cohen+White Associates offer “a little piece of heaven” in West Stockbridge! Plus, a selection of properties greenery to assure us that spring will eventually come.
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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!
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This week Lisa Bouchard Hoe and Christine Jones of The Kinderhook Group offer a stunning contemporary in Canaan N.Y. Plus, properties minutes from skiing!
The Self-Taught Gardener: The right fruit for the right place
Lee Buttala, our Self-Taught Gardener, learns lessons in biodiversity through a celebration of apples.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Midsummer night’s dream
Why should vacations from gardening happen only in winter? Lee Buttala discovers the joys of midsummer gardening breaks.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The winter landscape
In the snow-covered winter landscape above the Arctic Circle, Lee Buttala realizes that trees connect us to the season we are in, and to the seasons yet to come.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Wearing their hearts on their leaves
For Valentine’s Day, Lee Buttala, our Self-Taught Gardener, offers us nature’s own little love notes.
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Latest weekly report of real estate sales in the Berkshire region of Western Massachusetts and Northwest Connecticut; property of the week; what’s on the market; market perspectives; transformations; home and garden.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Snow covers
Our Self-Taught Gardener muses about how a persistent snow cover enables exotic plants to grow in unusual northern climes.
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Intriguing properties, latest transactions, more on everything you need to know about buying real estate in the Berkshires, and our Self-Taught Gardener pining for pines. All in this week’s real estate section. Enjoy!
The Self-Taught Gardener: The Edwardians
Gardening is in the process of evolving and being transformed into something that requires a level of care and nursing different from the highly manicured beds and borders.
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A great selection of articles in this week’s Real Estate Friday! Properties from a private lakefront to the center of bustling Great Barrington. And the first installment of a serialized guidebook to everything you need and want to know if you’re interested in Berkshire real estate.
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Market Perspectives – Two designers, Sue Schwarz and Susie Weekes, who specialize in “Turn Key design” transform an empty house into a fully furnished home in under four weeks.
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What’s on the Market – Check out “Properties ranging from $400k to $800k” in this week’s “What’s on the Market.” Something for everyone.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Life is sweet (especially once temperatures cool down)
Many vegetables become sweeter with cooler temperatures. So do some gardeners, like our author, in hopes that someone will keep him warm during the winter.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Fifty shades of cool
We can learn a lot from Southern gardeners as we face warmer weather here in the North, such as how to create the illusion of cool.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Seasonal affective disorder
How can we help but be confused if the spring catalogs come out in the dead of winter and the autumn catalogs come out when we’re just planting in spring? Do gardeners care?
The Self-Taught Gardener: Eliminating the competition
The ability of the boneset plant to kill off its neighbors, except for a few intimates, makes me think this plant is descended from the infamous Italian Renaissance Borgia family.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Flower power
Flowers from the composite family, actually hundreds of flowers held tightly together to look like one, gave me a vision of how we can all come together to provide the world with a little color and beauty.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Water lilies, two ways
What intrigued me most about two water lily sightings was how the setting influenced my response to this wonderful aquatic.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Slow Flowers
Of late, a new movement, Slow Flowers, has been giving local a new dimension. Local flowers have become just as popular as their vegetable counterparts.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The lineup
The only time plants look good set in tightly spaced rows in the garden is in an allée of trees, or in the vegetable or cutting garden. Or perhaps in Victorian bedding schemes at historic houses.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Bold choices
To my eye, every plant has a proper home.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Long-term investment
So often we allow mundane garden tasks like weeding or raking up fallen leaves and spent magnolia flowers to distract us from the garden activities that would benefit us more greatly in the future.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The great unifiers
These ancient non-seed forming plants are good team players and always seem to unify the landscape.