Carlisle Flowers
Graceland was the home of Elvis Presley, a short drive from center city Memphis, Tennessee where he recorded his songs at the Sun Recording Studio before RCA. We visited his colonial mansion the week after the anniversary of his death, a date that is memorialized by fans around the world. This statement is not without […]
A trip to Memphis, Tennessee is not complete unless you gather at the grand Peabody Hotel around 4:00 pm to get a front row seat in the resplendent lobby for the Duck March. There is a balcony overlooking the “parade” if you are a late arriver. The anticipation builds as the “Duck Master” tells the […]
“Notes from Wood and Fallow” a column in Country Life in America, Volume I, a magazine for the Home-Maker, the Vacation-seeker, The Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-Teacher, the Naturalist by L.H. Bailey, Editor, November, 1901 to April 1902, titles “Goldenrod, Queen of the American Garden.” Also known as solidago, it is a native plant that […]
Cheekwood’s 55 acre gardens lie to the west of Nashville, TN and were originally designed by New York residential and landscape architect, Bryant Fleming for Leslie and Mabel Cheek. They were completed in 1932. In the 1950s, their daughter Huldah Cheek Sharp and husband Walter, donated the estate to become a botanical garden and […]
Intuition told us to stay at a bed and breakfast when we recently visited Asheville, North Carolina. It proved right. The turn of the century Victorian and Arts and Crafts homes reflect the great detail the craftsmen, many of whom helped to build the Biltmore, the home of George and Edith Vanderbilt, employed to embellish […]
Frederick Law Olmsted was very pleased when George Vanderbilt hired him to design the landscape of his new home, the Biltmore in Asheville, a project Olmsted began in 1892. Olmsted was nationally known for his work in the public sector and the occasion to work on such a large scale, 125,000 acres in the western […]
