Carlisle Flowers
Suzy Bales, author of recently published “Garden Bouquets and Beyond” came to town last night and the Hardy Club garden members greeted her with flowers from their gardens. This morning Suzy Bales arranged the clippings of azaleas, Lilac Sensation, parrot tulips, tree peonies and hellebores to the delight of her audience. “Take all the foliage […]
& Nemours Mansion & Gardens has completed a $39,000,000 restoration and re-opened the gates to its majestic landscape. This mammoth reconstruction was done over a three year period utilizing world-class conservators and craftspeople who worked on excavations, landscaped the formal gardens, drained and repaired the 800,000 gallon reflecting pool, replaced electrical systems, and refurbished statues, […]
Discover the Stories Behind Washington’s Lush Trees The Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. Free Program What stories do the trees in your neighborhood tell? Are any of them willow oaks? If so, Thomacelebrate earth day with melanie choukas-bradleys Jefferson, who designed and executed the first D.C. street tree planting on record, would have loved […]
Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy in Gardening and Food Jefferson’s Monticello garden was a Revolutionary American garden. One wonders if anyone else had ever before assembled such a collection of vegetable novelties, culled from virtually every western culture known at the time, then disseminated by Jefferson with the persistence of a religious reformer, a seedy evangelist. Here […]
Plants with a Past Growing Veggies with Henry Shaw at the Kemper Center for Home Gardening Shaw’s receipt from 1888. Larger view. Several heirloom varieties that could be found in Shaw’s original vegetable garden will be on display this summer, including: early six week beans aubergine eggplant turnip root beet scotch kale calabrese broccoli cabbage large […]
Farmers in the young United States transported big seeds in muslim or burlap bags. Little seeds were not as easy to transport. They were carried hand to hand. In 1789 The Shakers invented the seed packets. The following year D. Landreth Seed Company sealed the packet with glue. A complete packet of paper seeds cost […]
