Susan Fornoff writes about Topher Delaney's healing gardens:
Lavender flanks an antique French urn that serves as a fountain in one corner; lemons climb on the two antique French gates that delineate the garden's three "rooms," each with a terra-cotta colored bench designed by Philippe Starck.Posted by James Zellmer at August 14, 2004 12:31 AM | Subscribe to this site via RSS:There are tomatoes growing; bay, rosemary, a rose bush, nasturtiums, too. Aloe and opuntia elaborate on the medicinal theme, and jasmine surrounds the base of the visual centerpiece, an Italian fountain surrounded by a shelf of Haifa limestone.
"This is very beautiful stone, from Jerusalem," Delaney says. "You see it in very lovely homes; you never see it in a hospital." She looks around. "This is as good as it gets in the most fancy house you could ever find. This is as good as it gets."
