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Peonies do best where there is a very cold winter like Wisconsin and Vermont. Move peonies in the fall, preferably in September. At the conclusion of a slide presentation extolling the virtues of various tree and herbaceous peonies, she surprised us. Her new found love is the Itoh peony, a cross between the tree […]
David Culp, grower, gardener, and soon to be author spoke at Ladew Topiary Garden in Monkon, Maryland during the Garden Festival this May. His historical overview of garden styles showed the formality of Versailles to the English picturesque style of nature. Williamsburg, Mr. Culp noted, had a great influence on American gardening. “Now the clipped […]
The American Impressionists in the Garden, currently on view at Cheekwood’s Museum of Art, includes a very large painting in the entrance gallery that holds every visitor’s attention. Edmund Tarbell’s In the Orchard (1891) has all the formal elements of a true impressionist painting: vibrant light, animated brushwork, and the casual atmosphere of a leisurely spent […]
Now through September 5, 2010 Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee will present The American Impressionists in the Garden, an exhibition exploring the theme of the garden in American art and society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition features approximately forty paintings depicting European and American gardens by […]
Westonbirt, the National Arboretum of England, is using a method to grow new plants from some of the collection’s oldest and rarest rhododendrons. The technique, known as air layering, tricks the plants into growing new roots from their branches. The roots produced are often stronger than those grown from cuttings because they have the live plant […]
Suzy Bales, author of recently published “Garden Bouquets and Beyond” came to town last night and the Hardy Club garden members greeted her with flowers from their gardens. This morning Suzy Bales arranged the clippings of azaleas, Lilac Sensation, parrot tulips, tree peonies and hellebores to the delight of her audience. “Take all the foliage […]
& Nemours Mansion & Gardens has completed a $39,000,000 restoration and re-opened the gates to its majestic landscape. This mammoth reconstruction was done over a three year period utilizing world-class conservators and craftspeople who worked on excavations, landscaped the formal gardens, drained and repaired the 800,000 gallon reflecting pool, replaced electrical systems, and refurbished statues, […]
Discover the Stories Behind Washington’s Lush Trees The Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. Free Program What stories do the trees in your neighborhood tell? Are any of them willow oaks? If so, Thomacelebrate earth day with melanie choukas-bradleys Jefferson, who designed and executed the first D.C. street tree planting on record, would have loved […]
Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy in Gardening and Food Jefferson’s Monticello garden was a Revolutionary American garden. One wonders if anyone else had ever before assembled such a collection of vegetable novelties, culled from virtually every western culture known at the time, then disseminated by Jefferson with the persistence of a religious reformer, a seedy evangelist. Here […]
Plants with a Past Growing Veggies with Henry Shaw at the Kemper Center for Home Gardening Shaw’s receipt from 1888. Larger view. Several heirloom varieties that could be found in Shaw’s original vegetable garden will be on display this summer, including: early six week beans aubergine eggplant turnip root beet scotch kale calabrese broccoli cabbage large […]
Farmers in the young United States transported big seeds in muslim or burlap bags. Little seeds were not as easy to transport. They were carried hand to hand. In 1789 The Shakers invented the seed packets. The following year D. Landreth Seed Company sealed the packet with glue. A complete packet of paper seeds cost […]
This two acre oasis of natural beauty was laid out by William Paca when he built his house. Although many colonial Annapolitans had gardens, only Paca’s has been returned to its original splendor and opened to the public. Archaeologists found remnants of the original brick garden wall, three outbuildings, the pond and the canal. The […]
