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Photo CarlisleFlowers The Seattle Japanese Garden, located in the Arboretum adjacent to the University of Washington is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The landscape architectural firm, the Olmsted Brothers, designed the Arboretum. Soon thereafter a foundation conceived the idea to create a Japanese garden within the Arboretum. Twenty some years later a large gift […]
Pike Place Market is the starting point for a trip to Seattle, Washington. It’s the hub of fresh flowers, bouquets of them – from $5 for a big bunch of sweet peas, to a whopping $20 for a hand-held arrangement. The first thing someone asks if you’ve been to Pike Place Market is, “Is that […]
Edith Wharton, author of “Ethan Frome,” “The Age of Innocence,” and “The House of Mirth” studied high society of New York. She also studied the villas of Rome and was the first to write about Italian gardens in English. Constance T. Haydock recently gave a talk on “Edith Wharton and the Villas of Rome,” at […]
“Give this house, oh traveler, Pray A blessing as you pass this way And if you’ve time, I beg your pardon While you’re at it, bless this garden” Inscription over the entrance to Mrs. King’s Alma garden Between World War I and World War II, Louisa Yeomans King was one of the nation’s most prominent […]
Jewel-tone colors of stained glass are the inspiration for this year’s Flower Carpet event at Biltmore, set for Aug. 20 through Sept. 12, on the South Terrace of Biltmore House. Biltmore’s third annual Flower Carpet – made up of more than 100,000 plants – takes its shape and color from a set of 1880s stained […]
The Evergreen Museum and Library are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a museum and their 6th biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition with ten site-specific works this summer – Simultaneous Presence. Sculpture 6 at Evergreen uses site specific installations by individuals and teams of artists and architects to embrace and challenge the historical and cultural grounds of […]
Copyright California Native Garden Foundation The California Native Garden Foundation promotes gardening of native plants in California and increasing the popularity of their use in garden design. CNGF seeks to bring us closer to our natural environment, the plant community in which we live. There are twelve plant communities in California, each with its own […]
In 1982 at the age of seventy, The First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the former President Lyndon B. Johnson, founded the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Texas. The book, “Wildflowers Across America” was a collaborative effort between Lady Bird and Carlton B. Lees, a prominent horticulturist, senior vice president of the New […]
The Hampton Court Palace Garden show sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society (the world’s largest flower show), London, England, feature new roses, clematis and dahlias this year. Clematis Nursery, owner Raymond Evison, is showing “Shimmer” as well as the “Clematis Guiding Promise”. It can be seen at the Girlguiding UK Centenary Garden. Jon Wheatley and […]
Designer Sadie May Stowell shows how we can create ‘bee-friendly’ gardens in the Copella Bee Garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society, London, England. An interactive sculptural building with plantings chosen to attract bees was inspired by the bee’s “waggle dance” and the garden reflects the journey from plant […]
From the “Grand Dame” of Champagne to the “Dark Lady” of American literature, eight intriguing and influential figures are the focus of this summer’s Lecture Series at The Mount. The series, now in its seventeenth season, brings acclaimed biographers and memoirists to Edith Wharton’s estate for fascinating talks exploring an array of cultural icons–and a […]
The Sustainable Sites InitiativeTM (SITESTM) has selected pilot projects to test a national rating system for sustainable landscape design, construction and maintenance.The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward Sustainable Infrastructure Project and the Indianapolis Super Bowl Village join more than 150 others that include educational centers, transportation […]
