Carlisle Flowers
This just in (over the wire?). Friend gives friend fern. What appeared to be a political blunder this afternoon, a gardener from outside the beltway gave a gardener from inside the beltway a native fern. It was a tense scene as the city gardener put her spade into the ground to uproot the fern’s crown. […]
National Public Lands Day National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance our public lands. Join us locally as we work to improve the trails at the FDR site. Saturday, September 29, 10:00am-3:00pm WHERE: Meet in the Wallace Center parking lot at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic […]
Mollie Ridout, Director of Horticulture for the Historic Annapolis Foundation and of the William Paca House in Annapolis, Maryland, writes of the distinctive style of gardening found in the mid-18th to early 19th century, the Falling Garden. Her article which appears in the quarterly newsletter of The Southern Garden History Society (Fall 2011, XXIV) describes […]
Library of Landscape Architecture History Books Anchor June Festivities in Chicago Chicago resident and LALH Board member John K. Notz Jr. has organized a series of events in June to celebrate the publication of two new titles from LALH, Graceland Cemetery: A Design History by Christopher Vernon andThe Native Landscape Reader, edited by Robert E. Grese. […]
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and the gardening mother is taken by the non-gardening father to Cylburn Arboretum’s Annual Market Day. We went directly to the hothouse where it was single file down the line of annuals propagated by the City of Baltimore’s citizens, friends and staff. The choice of coleuses was overwhelming. My husband stood […]
Funding Will Increase Public Digital Access to Natural History Illustrations (ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden has been awarded a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “The Art of Life,” an initiative to identify and describe natural history illustrations from the digitized books and journals in the Biodiversity Heritage Library […]
