Carlisle Flowers
For the past two years, chrysanthemums trained using traditional Japanese methods have been the centerpiece of The New York Botanical Garden’s lauded autumn offerings. This year the Botanical Garden presents more chrysanthemums than ever, showcased among the splendor and diversity of Japanese garden plants. In a Mum and Bonsai Garden, large installations of contemporary display […]
During the Chrysanthemum Festival at Longwood Gardens, October 19 through November 22, more than 20,000 colorful, blooming chrysanthemums flourish in the palatial Conservatory. Longwood’s experts have trained these fall favorites into unique forms including towering single-stemmed beauties and thousand-bloomers. The show reaches its peak bloom during the first three weeks of November. This year, a cloud of […]
One of the Queens of the Fall Flowers at the 2009 Chrysanthemum Display at the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Garden in Baltimore, MD is this lovely Senko Kenshin mum. The different cultivars displayed at the Conservatory include shapes such as anemone, spoon, quill, incurve, decorative and spider mums. Chrysanthemums wear their crown […]
The Smithsonian LIVE featuring the Smithsonian Horticulture Division recently hosted a workshop on Fall Tree Planting in late October at the Enid Haupt Garden just off the Mall. Now is the time to plant shade trees, that is trees that provide shade we were instructed. First there is some preparation to be done. Two linden trees […]
Here it is Halloween. Many of the leaves fell from the rain yesterday but here in Baltimore the ground and limbs still are full of leaf color. We went to a funeral today – R.I.P rest in peace. On the way home from church a sign pointed left. The Nearly New Sale at GBMC Hospital. […]
About this book: Therapeutic potentials of herbal drug ranges from parts of plants, through simple extracts to isolated active constituents. There has been a resurgence of interest in plants and plant derived products as a source of medicine in the last few decades. Herbal products have occupied a major part of curing different human ailments, […]
