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The Evergreen Museum and Library are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a museum and their 6th biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition with ten site-specific works this summer – Simultaneous Presence. Sculpture 6 at Evergreen uses site specific installations by individuals and teams of artists and architects to embrace and challenge the historical and cultural grounds of […]
Copyright California Native Garden Foundation The California Native Garden Foundation promotes gardening of native plants in California and increasing the popularity of their use in garden design. CNGF seeks to bring us closer to our natural environment, the plant community in which we live. There are twelve plant communities in California, each with its own […]
In 1982 at the age of seventy, The First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the former President Lyndon B. Johnson, founded the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Texas. The book, “Wildflowers Across America” was a collaborative effort between Lady Bird and Carlton B. Lees, a prominent horticulturist, senior vice president of the New […]
The Hampton Court Palace Garden show sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society (the world’s largest flower show), London, England, feature new roses, clematis and dahlias this year. Clematis Nursery, owner Raymond Evison, is showing “Shimmer” as well as the “Clematis Guiding Promise”. It can be seen at the Girlguiding UK Centenary Garden. Jon Wheatley and […]
Designer Sadie May Stowell shows how we can create ‘bee-friendly’ gardens in the Copella Bee Garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society, London, England. An interactive sculptural building with plantings chosen to attract bees was inspired by the bee’s “waggle dance” and the garden reflects the journey from plant […]
From the “Grand Dame” of Champagne to the “Dark Lady” of American literature, eight intriguing and influential figures are the focus of this summer’s Lecture Series at The Mount. The series, now in its seventeenth season, brings acclaimed biographers and memoirists to Edith Wharton’s estate for fascinating talks exploring an array of cultural icons–and a […]
