Carlisle Flowers
Lost Gardens of the Bandywine runs through July 25th at Winterthur Museum and Gardens. During the clamorous years before World War II, American gardens developed into a high art. Through the use of antique garden furniture, rare color photography, and never-before-seen family images of garden life, this ehibition explores how Wilmington became a focal point […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current installation of Big Bambu created by Doug + Mike Starn is an exhilerating experience to climb on the Met’s sculpture garden rooftop. The 4,000 pieces of bamboo frame the structure that lifts you above the tree tops of Central Park, Manhattan. The work is still in progress by the […]
Co-presented with The Poetry Society of America Friday, April 30–Sunday, June 13, 2010 Discover the gardener who became the poet. Experience the life and works of one of America’s most treasured poets as never before at the New York Botanical Garden. Her Garden: Tour her Victorian Homestead re-created in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory with […]
Breezeway Iris Garden is a family business started by George Bacon and his mother Doris Bacon. The garden is located just outside of Madison, Wisconsin at the family home on 80 rolling acres we have owned since 1960. Our current house was built in the spring and summer of 2003 and the first Iris were […]
Keith Keppel writes, “I began selling irises when I was in high school — during the 1950’s — and shortly after that began the mail-order bit. (This was in California…moved to Oregon in 1993 after retirement from the post office.) My “specialty” would be tall bearded irises. I’m particularly interested in the plicata and luminata […]
The American Iris Society’s (AIS) beginnings can be found on their website, www.irises.org/history.htm. “The Founding of the AIS: A New York Story” includes this excerpt: John C. Wister, a young landscape architect who played an important role in planning the AIS and became its first president, often said that America’s rebirth of interest in garden […]
