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We traveled south on the computer this rainy Saturday morning to celebrate Father’s Day weekend in Austin, Texas for the 33rd annual Hyde Park Historic Homes Tour. Six houses on the tour include an 1890s two-story home that was moved to the neighborhood from the west campus area, an historic landmark home that has […]
The first annual Green Roofs for the West Symposium will take place this Thursday, June 18th at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado. Co-hosted by the Gardens, U.S. Green Building Council and Colorado State University, the Symposium will spotlight the innovative ways green roofs are leading us to a future of more sustainable cities. […]
You have a budget of under $10 and want to decorate with flowers. Here is a neat crisp pop of color that provoked enough comments two weeks ago (yes, it is that old) to warrant doing it again. A topiary of sorts of black-eyed yellow poms – two bunches which adorned our kitchen […]
Peonies The peony season came and went in Baltimore before we could bat an eye. A picture from the ’08 album shows these beauties in a flower arrangement where several unseen branches hold the peonies’ heads up making them easier to arrange. Here is a great site for planning your peony garden next […]
This wall vase was a find in an antique store in Berkley Springs, West Virginia. Just one of many wall vases. The collectors were collecting them and we enjoyed the collections.
This little gem was a find during the Horticultural Society of Maryland tour of gardens last weekend. Its lacy leaves reminded one of a Japanese Maple. Its color and flower are exceptional. A Proven Garden winner in 2006. Sambucus nigra. Now, where can we put one in our garden? http://www.colorchoiceplants.com/black_lace.htm
We have the good fortune of visiting Berkley Springs, WVA this week for a little rest and relaxation. George Washington discovered the restorative waters of the mountain springs and the Berkley Springs State Park located in the middle of town marks the stone lined bath he frequented. The town itself has two names, the […]
The Missouri Botanical Garden, the oldest continually operating botanical garden in the United States, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. On June 15th the Garden will be open to the public for an entrance fee of $1.50, a part of the year-long sesquicentennial celebration, Missouri Botanical Garden: Green for 150 Years. On this […]
What a treat yesterday to tour six private gardens in Baltimore County sponsored by the Horticultural Society of Maryland. This island of rock surrounded by a sea of liriope has vegetation all its own, sedum creeping from its crevices. (more on stone in the landscape see “The Use of Stone…” 5/28/09 post) www.mdhorticulture.org
It’s May 31st and mail box posts in the neighborhood are vining with clematis. Now how do you say clematis, like tomato or to ma to. We’ll have to see if the Gershwin Brothers wrote some lyrics about these fine flowers. Here are two renditions of white after the sun has set to show […]
Queen Elizabeth planted a ginko tree, a tree of prehistoric times and the Duke of Ediburgh planted a Wollemi pine, thought to be extinct until rediscovered in Australia to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG). RGB is a world leader in international conservatism, scientific research and plant science. In 1759 William […]
“Stone in the Garden: Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects,” a book written by Gordon Hayward, 2001, W.W. Norton & Company, shows the reader where sky meets the earth, stone and water. “You can understand the logic of placing boulders and large rocks along a waterfall or stream (showing the Portland Japanese Garden waterfall as […]
