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The town of Oxford, Maryland is celebrating its 325 anniversary this year. Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland laid out in 1694. Located on the Tred Avon River, Oxford thrived as a port of entry prior to the American Revolution, an international shipping center for wealthy tobacco plantation owners. After the Revolution […]
Heritage Plaza, the developed portion of Heritage Park in Fort Worth, Texas, was designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. In the late 1960s Fort Worth’s Streams and Valleys, together with the philanthropic Amon G. Carter Foundation and Sid Richardson Foundation, Charles D. Tandy, and Ruth Carter Stevenson, commissioned Lawrence Halprin and Associates to design a […]
Two purples were used to make this arrangement: cone flowers and loosestrife*. Because there are so many round flowers here, it is nice to use the spikes of the loosestrife and we also tucked in some grey spikes of lamb’s ear. Our friend admired the yellow glorioso daisies so we tucked them in the bottom. […]
When picking a white to paint your room, how difficult the task. There are so many Sherwin Williams whites. You are overcome. This arrangement however was not as daunting. These whites agreed to stand next to each other and not fight the interior. Green helps immensely, the yet to turn pink, Autumn Joy sedum, the […]
Nikko Blue Hydrangeas You want a blue flower. Here they are in spades. Nikko Hydrangeas, the blue turning to purple down the line. Brought a few in to enjoy! And wouldn’t you know. Architectural Digest interior design writers deem blue the “in” color for the season.
We marvel at the vision of a landscape designer who wroughts all the preparation time necessary to bring to fruition this lovely combination of Pickerel Rush/bog plant and the Vitex/Chaste Tree. The complementary blue spires of each are truly a work of art.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden celebrates the grand opening of new green-designed facilities by hosting Moore in America, the largest exhibition of British artist Henry Moore’s outdoor sculptures ever presented in the U.S. Moore’s monumental works are dramatically displayed among the lush, colorful plantings of the Midtown attraction, which offers new gardens, a green-designed Visitor Center and parking facility, and […]
One evening I wanted to go to a garden so I chose Cleveland, Ohio and found the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a lovely site maintained by Cleveland State University. Here’s why. “The Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America. They reveal the history of immigration to, and migration within, the United States. They comment on how […]
Happy 233rd Birthday, United States of America! July 5, 2009 5:00 am Eastern Shore, Maryland
The story of the acanthus leaf as told by Princess Grace of Monaco in her book, “My Book of Flowers” goes like this…”The acanthus was a favored plant of the Greeks, and it grows freely on the Riviera. When I look at its beautifully sculptured leaves and elegant flowers, I am reminded of the reason […]
The Copenhagen Botanical Garden and Museum is situated in the heart of Copenhagen. The garden has the largest collection of living plants in Denmark. The museum holds one of the largest herbaria of plants and fungi from all over the world. Copenhagen Botanical Garden’s Greenhouse design was influenced by The Crystal Palace in London, England. […]
A path of Astilbe on a Saturday morning, too early for the sun to shine on these feathery wands of muted pinks and whites. The mass of softness along the square slate path takes the wanderer meandering along.
