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December 2011  Cottages & Gardens, Hamptons Treasusre Trove  (PDF)

June 25th,2011: Elizabeth Lear announces the winner of the 2011 On & Off Competition at Longhouse. YouTube

The Making of a Sustainable House - The landscaping is a Sustainable Native Landscape designed by Lear & Mahoney Landscape Associates.
The East Hampton Star (By Don Matheson, October 6, 2011) (PDF)

Southampton Press, Residence Section
January 28, 2010 - by April Gonzales - (PDF)

The Sandcastle - MTV Teen Cribs - November 16, 2009
(17min video of house and grounds)- WMV file  

Historic Walking Tours - 2009
Brian Mahoney - (PDF)

LongHouse Reserve, On and Off the Ground Exhibit
June 28, 2009 - Chaired by Elizabeth Lear , Juried by P. Allen Smith (PDF)

LongHouse Reserve, On and Off the Ground Exhibit
June 28, 2008- juried by Martha Stewart.  -Video

LongHouse Reserve, On and Off the Ground Exhibit 2008
June 28, 2008 - Chaired by Elizabeth Lear, juried by Martha Stewart (PDF)

Historic Walking Tours - 2008
Brian Mahoney - (PDF)

2008 Corcoran's Properties for Living: Meet the Designer
Published by HC&G - (PDF)

Les Quatre Vents Garden Tour - Cabot Canada Garden Tour
2008 - Longhouse.org - (PDF)

Captains Neck
2007 - farrellbuilding.com - Observer (PDF) and HamptonStyle (PDF)

Historic Walking Tours - 2007
July - by Brian Mahoney - (PDF)

P Allen Smith -LongHouse Reserve
Elizabeth Lear - 2007. (PDF)

Historic Walking Tours - 2006
Sunday July 16 - by Brian Mahoney - (PDF)

Martha Stewart Living Magazine - "3 Levels of Seaside Gardening"
by Susan Heeger - starting page 154 (PDF)

Bobbi Mastrangelo - Postcard Dedication - to Brian Mahoney- 2006

Bobbi Mastrangelo - Grate Spring - Tribute to Brian Mahoney- 2006

Shoreham Hamlet Study Committee " The Hamlet of Shoreham is Created" - March 2005

The Shoreham Civic Association, lead by President Mary Daum started a grass roots level committee to foster smart town planning. Brian J. Mahoney, ASLA, worked with the association's Shoreham Hamlet Study Committee. After 7 Years of meetings, gathering information, contacting state and local officials, the creation of the Hamlet of Shoreham was indoctrinated at Brookhaven Town Hall. (PDF of website 4mg)

New York Times - February 6, 2005
'Civic Group Beats Developers to the Punch' - by Stewart Ain (PDF)

Home Designer Showcase -
presented by House & Garden to Benefit Southampton Hospital (PDF)

The East Hampton Star - Sann House (PDF)

The East Hampton Star - Star Gardener - August 21, 2003
by Abby Jane Brody (PDF)

Interiorscape - 2003 Best Project Award - January/February 2003
Sunrise Mall Food Court p70 - Brian Mahoney -(PDF)

Interiorscape - May/June 2002
'scraper scoop - Brian Mahoney -(PDF)

Home Designer Showcase - Villa Maria - 2001
presented by Homestyle (PDF)

1099 Magazine, IP Landscape Architect - 2000
"She Loves to Get Her Hands Dirty" - by Elizabeth Collins (PDF)

House & Garden - August 2000
Domestic Bliss - Driveways - pages 14 & 16 (PDF)

Architectural Digest - May 1999
Biography of a Country House
Author Gerald Clarke’s Shingled Refuge on the Eastern End of Long Island

page 232
“A house so connected to the outdoors cannot, of course, be separated from its surroundings. When I bought the land, it was a beautiful but blank slate, covered with nothing but coarse grass and weeds, the only trees being those around the pond. With the help of an excellent local landscaper, Elizabeth A. Lear, I slowly proceeded to fill in that empty expanse.”

Martha Stewart Living Magazine - March 1999
Container Gardening - pages 208 to 215
Vines - pages 192-201

Martha Stewart Living Magazine - September 1998
Hedges - pages 210 to 217

Gardenscapes, Designs for Outdoor Living - published 1997
by Carol Soucek King, PhD. - foreward by Martha Stewart

page 148...
“A successful floral designer with a large family, he requested a garden that would be monumental and romantic as well as usable for a wide variety of family activities, says Lear. So we addressed these needs by first organizing the frame and structure of the terracing, courtyard and gardens, and lastly through the detailing.”

page 160...
“Complemented by Lear’s careful selection of antique French rambler roses on the arbors, mixed perennials, ornamental shrubs and specimen trees, the new design graciously honors the refined yet buoyant spirit of Maidstone Hall.”

Empowered Gardens, Architects and Designers at Home - published 1997
by Carol Soucek King, PhD. - foreward by Michael Graves, FAFA.

Page 110...
“This garden is a collaboration with Elizabeth Lear, a landscape designer who is sensitive to my needs.”

Seaside Gardening - published 1995
by Theodore James Jr. and Harry Haralambou

page 29...
“In another Long Island meadow garden blessed with abundant sun, designer Elizabeth Lear planted a grove of Bradford pears to shade a charming gazebo. In the distance, Coreoptsis lanceolata and C. tinctoria bloom amid fescue grasses and achillea.”

page 77...
“Designer Elizabeth Lear has created an outdoor flower arrangement in this tub. The swordlike foliage of dracaena gives structure to a planting that also includes ivy geraniums and variegated vinca. Lear recommends ivy geraniums for seaside gardens because it is less susceptible to wind damage than other varieties.”

page 87..
“Designer Elizabeth Lear has used Nantucket ramblers with varieties of blue flowering clematis over a moon gate in a Long Island garden. White double peonies bloom in front of a yew hedge.”

page 89...
“Another rose covered cottage, this one in Water Mill, New York, was designed by Elizabeth Lear. To compliment the pink New Dawn’s climbing rose, she has planted Viburnum plicatum, hydrangea, pink dahlias, and white snapdragons.

 

Specialty Gardens - published 1992
by Theodore James Jr. and Harry Haralambou

page 123...
“It was clear to me that the success of creating a surrounding garden rested in balancing…Long Island’s natural environment and the geometry of the building…(in) a contemporary scheme which would intentionally romanticize the site,” Lear says. “This garden’s profile articulates the Renaissance idea that all of nature is a garden and expresses the underlying spirit of the surrounding landscape. It would have been disastrous to impose an alien idealized suburban landscape.”