She owns and maintains Dandelion Cottage, her home and art studio, where you will find various perennial borders, a kitchen garden, a native woodland garden, and an orchard. She grows specialty cut flowers and offers bouquets by appointment. Watkins is a Connecticut Master Gardener, and holds a certificate in horticulture from Northwestern Connecticut Community College.
She designs, paints, and maintains gardens in NWCT. Watkins' garden design illustrations have been published in Rodale's "Perennial Combinations", and in magazines including Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Kitchen Gardener, and in The New York Times. Her botanical watercolors have appeared on notecards, placemats, wallpaper, and postage stamps. When not gardening, Leslie is a plein air landscape oil painter, botanical illustrator, and teaches watercolor classes and art workshops.
Leslie keeps an amusing flock of bantam chickens, and speaks publicly on gardening with chickens. Several of her articles and illustrations have been featured in Backyard Poultry magazine, and a column, "Through the Garden Gate" is published monthly in Norfolk Now.
She designs, paints, and maintains gardens in NWCT. Watkins' garden design illustrations have been published in Rodale's "Perennial Combinations", and in magazines including Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Kitchen Gardener, and in The New York Times. Her botanical watercolors have appeared on notecards, placemats, wallpaper, and postage stamps. When not gardening, Leslie is a plein air landscape oil painter, botanical illustrator, and teaches watercolor classes and art workshops.
Leslie keeps an amusing flock of bantam chickens, and speaks publicly on gardening with chickens. Several of her articles and illustrations have been featured in Backyard Poultry magazine, and a column, "Through the Garden Gate" is published monthly in Norfolk Now.
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Dandelion Gardening Arts' gardeners are passionate about nature.
All things natural; plants, animals, birds and the way they interact are infinitely interesting to us.
That, along with experience, knowledge, and aesthetics are what set us apart in the gardening world.
We are attentive, reliable, and very creative.
All gardens are interesting to us from cottage to formal, secret to public, native to sacred.
We can help you grow the garden of your dreams.
We will work with you to create perennial beds and borders, plan and plant kitchen gardens, and help you maintain them.
All things natural; plants, animals, birds and the way they interact are infinitely interesting to us.
That, along with experience, knowledge, and aesthetics are what set us apart in the gardening world.
We are attentive, reliable, and very creative.
All gardens are interesting to us from cottage to formal, secret to public, native to sacred.
We can help you grow the garden of your dreams.
We will work with you to create perennial beds and borders, plan and plant kitchen gardens, and help you maintain them.
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