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SECOND ANNUAL HISTORIC VIEWSHED TOUR PLANNED FOR OLANA On Saturday, October 24 2009, The Olana Partnership and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, will join with neighboring landowners to celebrate the beauty surrounding Olana’s 250-acre landscape. Like last year’s very successful event, the 2009 self-guided tour focuses on the farms and […]
The frescoes on the north side of the courtyard at the New Mexico Museum of Art were painted in 1934 by Will Shuster (1893 to 1969). The eight images represented views of Native American life and spirituality. They were painted as part of the Public Works of Art Program, the first federally funded art project […]
Tucked between the brand-new New Mexico History Museum and its largest artifact, the 400-year-old Palace of the Governors, is an oasis in the heart of downtown Santa Fe. The interior Palace Courtyard has seen wedding receptions, bocce ball games, Tai Chi classes and families taking a quiet break. Tall trees (a massive Chinese elm thought […]
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, founded in 1887, opened at its 3260 South Street location in 1899. Today, with almost one million artifacts, its collections hail from every inhabited continent. The landscape architectural team of Wilson Erye and Frank Miles Day designed the Warden Garden, the University’s Upper Courtyard Garden which […]
The Garden Court, The Frick Collection, New York, Photo: Michael Bodycomb The Frick Museum: In 1913, construction began on Henry Frick’s New York mansion at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue. The house he erected cost $5,000,000. The firm of Carrère and Hastings designed the house to accommodate Mr. Frick’s paintings and other art objects. Even […]
Sustainable Use and Conservation Black cohosh is a slow-growing perennial with global demand. Because this species is primarily wild harvested and the harvest results in mortality of the plant, wild black cohosh populations may be susceptible to over-harvest. There are ongoing efforts to research harvest impacts on black cohosh and provide information to help collectors […]
Echinea The Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham, MA is home to a number of architectural and garden designs chosen with two design themes: (1) nature, (2) medical history and tradition. Though all of the MMS gardens share the two themes, Hortus Medicus is considered the signature garden. Every medieval European university that had a medical […]
GROWING CHINESE MEDICINALS IN AMERICA Reflections of an Herb Grower by Peg Schafer As a grower ( of Chinese Medicinal Herbs) since 1997, I (Peg Schafer) have enjoyed being part of the introduction of Asian botanicals in the U.S. North America and China share the same general latitude and much of the climate is similar, […]
The treasure of wild medicinal plants of Egypt St Katherine Protectorate is perhaps Egypt’s most picturesque national park. It encloses most of the mountainous area of central South Sinai, including the country’s highest mountain Gebel Katharina (2624m). The park is a treasure trove of wild plants. Of the 375 flora species that have been recorded, […]
Global attention is being attracted to St. Katherine’s Protectorate (SKP) in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt for its medicinal plant diversity. The Medicinal Plant Conservation Project (MPCP) lead by Professor Mohamed El-Demerdash of the Mansoura University works with the local Bedouin community to attain sustainable conservation of the wild taxa and to improve the awareness of […]
The new found interest in botany led to a passion for gardening during the Victorian age, the era when Henry Shaw, founded the Missouri Botanical Garden 150 years ago. Shaw modeled his gardens using a parterre design to feature an array of plantings and colors.
The Chinese garden is the fruit of bonds forged between the Parks Department of the City of Shanghai and the Montreal Botanical Garden. The concept of the garden was the work of Le Weizhong, renowned architect and master landscaper and the then (during construction in 1990-1991) director of the Shanghai Institute of Landscape Design and […]
