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The following article is from the www.biltmore.com website. Olmsted’s Vision When George Vanderbilt decided to make Western North Carolina his home, the Biltmore Estate, he hired the founding father of American landscape architecture—Frederick Law Olmsted—to design the grounds. Olmsted’s vision for Biltmore included a small pleasure ground and garden, a major arboretum and nursery, and […]
The Page-Rollins White Garden is a redesign of a preexisting White Garden at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens explains Jason Holmes, Curator, Doris Duke Center Gardens. The white garden is based in part on one of the most famous gardens in England, Sissinghurst, and will be completed by Spring, 2012. The designers and gardeners of […]
In the early 1930s, Dr. Frederic M. Hanes, a pathologist, neurologist and chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University, saw promise in a debris-filled and overgrown ravine that he passed as he walked to work each day. In 1934, Hanes – who was in many ways the first director of development for Duke […]
A garden friend gave me this small plant several years ago. I didn’t know what it was and neither did she. It came from her friend’s garden. I planted it in full sun in the back of the garden so in the event I didn’t like it, no big deal. It came up the following […]
This is the view from Miss Elizabeth Lawrence’s desk. The following excerpt is from her book, Gardens in Winter: “I am writing, as always, of my own garden which I see, whenever I look up from my work, everyday in the year—never without pleasure, and seldom without seeing something in bloom. But I am not […]
Warren H. Manning came from a New England family, a family with a strong horticultural background. According to Robin Karson in her book, A Genius for Place, published by University of Massachusetts Press in association with the Library of American Landscape History, his father, Jacob Warren Manning, was considered, “the dean of the nursery trade […]
