Carlisle Flowers
October at the Farmer’s market in Easton, MD, this little gem was for sale. “I have to have this,” a common gardener’s refrain, was compelling enough. Somewhere in the back of my little brain was stored an image of this Sacred Lily, although I could never have told you a thing about it. Tolerates droughty […]
Students, your take-home exam, the final for this semester is as follows: write a five page paper on the best landscape architect there ever was in the United States. In my unbiased view, the answer is Frederick Law Olmsted. Your assignment is to explain how his manipulation of nature was for the good of […]
Edith Wharton was a writer in the late 1900s into the first third of the 20th Century. The biographer, R.W.B. Lewis writes in his book, Edith Wharton A Biography that Ms. Wharton scoured the Italian countryside to study and write about its beauty and to document its many villa gardens. Mr. Lewis refers to an […]
Sue Olsen, a founding member and first president of the Hardy Foundation Quarterly recently spoke at the Dunn Gardens, a 10 acre garden overlooking the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains designed by the Olmsted Brothers. Ms Olsen, owner of Foliage Gardens Fern Nursery, is author of the Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns, published by Timber […]
Poplar Island At a Glance video overview – 37 seconds Poplar Island, a 1140 acre island in the mid-1800s, whittled down to 3 acres in the late 1900s. It is being restored from beneficial dredged material from the shipping channels of the Chesapeake Bay the lead to the Port of Baltimore. The U.S. Army […]
Ladew Topiary Gardens situated in the hunt country of Northern Maryland hosted Judith B. Tankard, a landscape historian and author of the newly published book, Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden. Gertrude Jekyll was an artist who applied her keen eye of color to her garden beds, Ms. Tankard explained. Her study of color […]
