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PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM STATE HISTORIC PARK REOPENS NEWLY RENOVATED ITALIAN GARDEN JUNE 18th The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announces the special ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the re-opening of the Italian Garden at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, New York. The ceremony takes place in the Italian Garden […]
Summer has arrived and for many gardeners it means heat, drought and watering bans. Help your gardens thrive despite limited time and these seasonal challenges, explains gardening expert, author and TV host Melinda Myers. Myers recommends the following tips to help summer gardens flourish: Put your yard waste to work in your garden. Its good […]
Take a guided tour through the the Sacred Seeds Sanctuary, a garden showcasing Native American medicinal plants in their natural habitat. Your guide, a curator of ethnobotany at Missouri Botanical Garden, will explain the rich cultural history of Native Americans in the Missouri region, their traditions of medicinal plant use, and the legacy that these cultres […]
rhs.org.uk – Royal Horticultural Society www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com/show-highlights/show-gardens NS&I www.nsandi.com/about/ourstory ‘Calm and centred’ Designer: Lauren Davis Lauren Davis wants to show others how gardening can be simple and accessible and she did just that with her “Calm and Centered” designed garden, winner of the NS&I Growing Gardens Today Competition 2010. A passionate gardener with a post graduate […]
Turenscape, China and Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture Client: The 2010 Shanghai Expo Bureau, China American Society of Landscape Architects www.asla.org The site plan of Houtan Park (top) and a bird’s-eye view from the southwest (bottom). Photo: Kongjian Yu The water-cleaning mechanism of man-made wetlands. Photo: Kongjian Yu The linear wetland in the middle of […]
Autumn Fern, Photo CarlisleFlowers Garden Tour Sponsored by Horticulture Society of Maryland, Photo CarlisleFlowers This year’s garden tour sponsored by the Horticultural Society of Maryland offered a glimpse of seven gardens in Baltimore County, Maryland. The beginning of the tour led us into the woods, a canopy of trees with a brook running through the […]
This is the green earth. What beauty to talk about. This summer (2010) we will be writing courses to be downloaded as power point presentations free to the public. The nature courses will be multi-disciplinary, ecological, cultural, sociological and international (if we can fit that all in a 15 minute package!) We welcome your ideas […]
Threatened Garden Click here to view historical and recent photos of Western Hills. In The New York Times on May 12, 2005, Dan Hinkley, founder of the Heronswood nursery in Kingston, Washington, described Western Hills Rare Plant Nursery and Garden as “his personal mecca.” He noted that “there is a realness and trueness and originality to the […]
The number of publications aimed at the garden owner surged in the early 20th century. Many of the most popular garden writers were women, some of whom are still read today. Landscape historian Diane Newbury brought the world of gardening in the 1920s to the fore by spotlighting the works of Louise Beebe Wilder, Marion […]
Helen Dillon writes in her book, “In the Irish Garden” (1998), “It is often said that there are two types of gardener, collector and maker of garden pictures. I can never decide which one I am. In the end the plants must come first…” “I think it is better to go against all gardening rules […]
Biodiversity is the buzz word Biodiversity is the buzz word at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2010. The plants and garden designs are stunning, as always, but one can hear the gentle sounds of bees, or at least bees that should be there. Chelsea underscores that need for biodiversity to sustain our pollinators, […]
Lost Gardens of the Bandywine runs through July 25th at Winterthur Museum and Gardens. During the clamorous years before World War II, American gardens developed into a high art. Through the use of antique garden furniture, rare color photography, and never-before-seen family images of garden life, this ehibition explores how Wilmington became a focal point […]
