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Sidney Lanier, Poet and Musician Cindy Kelly, author of Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore, A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City, led us on a tour of monuments located near Johns Hopkins University campus. This monument of Sidney Lanier was completed in 1941 by sculptor, Hans Schuler of Baltimore. Lanier was a musician […]
Photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 In the first half of the nineteenth century, the most impressive sculptural monuments in America were under construction in Baltimore. Before New York, Philadelphia, and even Washington, D.C., the city built a monument to George Washington, and Baltimore commissioned the country’s first public […]
New Conservancy to Celebrate 70th Anniversary of the Opening of Dumbarton Oaks Park Dumbarton Oaks Park, a 27-acre gem in the heart of Georgetown, will receive new support and hope for restoration on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, with the announcement of the formation of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy. The park was given to the […]
National Cherry Blossom Festival ANNOUNCING THE 2011 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MARCH 26 – SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2011 The National Cherry Blossom Festival is Washington D.C.’s and the nation’s greatest springtime celebration offering 16 days of diverse programming that largely is free and open to the public. Entertaining and engaging more than one million residents […]
Drink in the breathtaking beauty of Scotland’s gardens through the lens of photographer Allan Pollok-Morris. His five-year study features the work of more than 30 renowned landscape designers and land artists, including Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Arabella Lennox-Boyd and Penelope Hobhouse. Pollok-Morris’ photographs are stunning, but clearly the gardens themselves and Scotland […]
U.S. Botanic Garden Production Facility Open House Only once each year do we invite the public to see our growing facility, the largest greenhouse complex supporting a public garden in the United States. The site, completed in 1994, includes 85,000 square feet under glass divided into 34 greenhouse bays and 16 environmental zones. In addition […]
THE 2011 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MARCH 26 – SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2011 The National Cherry Blossom Festival is Washington DC’s and the nation’s greatest celebration offering 16 days of diverse programming that largely is free and open to the public. Entertaining and engaging more than one million residents and visitors annually, the 2011 Festival […]
We are starting a peace garden. A garden that gives us peace. Are there certain elements necessary for our garden, some design concepts to embrace it? Should there be a grove, a pergola with vines? Should we invite butterflies and birds to give us their peace? If we bring peace with us can we leave […]
The second issue of greencourses.net, a companion site to CarlisleFlowers.net and a multi-media venue for “green” educational subjects, published yesterday. We invite you to visit the gardens of Stratford Hall, the home of General Robert E. Lee, Colonial Williamsburg, the College of William and Mary, Hills & Dales in Georgia, and a famous topiary garden […]
Published in 1992 by Atlantic Monthly Press, The Gardener’s Eye authored by Allen Lacy, a contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Horticulture Magazine, author of Home Ground, Farther Afield, The Glory of Roses and The Garden in Autumn, notes in his chapter, “No Chauvinism Intended, But…” native plants are important […]
Developing a Plan, Chapter Two: Rudy J. and Joy Putman Favretti wrote “Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings” and the book was published by the American Association for State and Local History in 1978. The first step they note in developing a plan is to select either a landscape architect who specializes in historic preservation […]
2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show Presents “Springtime in Paris” Philadelphia will command the world’s stage for a spectacular tribute to Europe’s City of Light when the Philadelphia International Flower Show debuts “Springtime in Paris,” March 6 – 13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The entire city will be aglow with special displays and distinctive promotions […]
