Selected Restorations

  • Wharton Place  circa 1810
    Eastern Shore of Virginia
  • Ayr Mount  circa 1815
    for Mr. Richard H. Jenrette
     Hillsborough, NC
  • Rosedale  circa 1815
    for the Historic Rosedale Foundation
     Charlotte, NC
  • Roper House  circa 1840
    for Mr. Richard H. Jenrette
     East Bay Street, Charleston, SC
  • Alexander Graham Bell House  circa 1860
    for USWest Corp.
     35th Street Georgetown, Washington DC
  • Richmond Hill Inn and Conference Center  circa 1890
    for Dr. and Mrs. Jake Michel
     Asheville, NC
  • Dr. William Coker House  circa 1917
    for Dr. and Mrs. Woodrow Burns
     Chapel Hill, NC
  • #78 Main Street  circa 1810
    for Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones
     Nantucket, MA
  • Ellen Biddle Shipman Garden 
    Presidents House, Wake Forest University
     Winston Salem, NC
  • Hezekiah Alexander House  circa 1790
    for the Queen's Table Public Art Project
     Charlotte Museum of History , Charlotte, NC
  • Colonial Williamsburg Inn 
    in collaboration with the Hayter Firm
     Williamsburg, VA
  • Willow Oak Plantation  circa 1825
    for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dick
     Eden, NC
  • 1822 Fair Street 
    for Mr. and Mrs. Peter Richard
     Camden, SC
  • McLendon House 
    Long Island, NY

Garden Symposiums

  • The Garden Club of America
    Hillsborough, Piedmont, Orinda, CA; Palm Beach, FL; Honolulu, HI; Barrington, Chicago, Winnetka, IL; Nantucket, MA; Cincinnati, OH; and Newport, RI
  • The Trustees Garden Club of Savannah, GA
    Savannah, GA
  • The Cherokee Garden Club
    Atlanta, GA
  • The English Landscape Gardening School
    Chelsea Physic Garden
     London
  • The Garden Club of San Francisco, CA
    San Francisco, CA
  • The Cummer Museum of Art
    Jacksonville, FL
  • The McKee Botanical Garden
    Vero Beach, FL
  • Richmond Hill Garden Symposia with Penelope Hobhouse
    Ashville, NC
  • J.C. Raulston Arboretum Symposium
    Raleigh, NC
  • The Garden Club of Virginia Annual Meeting
    Richmond, VA
  • The Garden Club of the City of New York
    New York
  • California Horticultural Society
    San Francisco, CA
  • North Carolina Museum of Art
    Raleigh, NC
  • The Greensboro Historical Museum
    Greensboro, NC
  • The Elizabeth Gamble Garden Lecture Series
    Palo Alto, CA
  • The Mint Museum of Art
    Charlotte, NC
  • Winghaven Garden Spring Symposium
    Charlotte, NC
  • Maryland Horticultural Society
    LaDew Topiary Garden
     Monkton, MD
  • Ellen Shipman Garden Lecture
    Duke University
     Durham, NC
  • Charleston Historical Society
    Charleston, SC
  • Savannah Historical Society Spring Symposium
    Savannah, GA
  • North Carolina Botanical Garden
    100th Anniversary of the Coker Arboretum
     Chapel Hill, NC
  • Nantucket Preservation Trust
    New York, New York

Board Affiliations

Chip's Garden

Chip gardens on the grounds of his two, turn-of-the-century bungalows in Historic Fisher Park near downtown Greensboro. He uses one house as his residence and the other as his office. As a happy circumstance, when he bought the houses, Chip was unaware that one of them was a childhood home of one of his mentors, legendary botanist William Lanier Hunt, after whom the botanical garden at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is named.

Chip designed the gardens behind the houses as a collection of plants and garden elements he remembered from the gardens of his youth. The garden is overflowing with old fashioned favorites like roses, hydrangeas, camellias, gardenias and viburnums. Perennials and favored annuals complete the scheme. In addition to being a oasis of calm in a busy city, the garden also serves as a test garden for new plants. Chip is very proud to be a partner in Piedmont Carolina Nursery. Many new plant introductions prove their merit in his ever-changing urban landscape.