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THE ANNE SPENCER GARDEN The restoration of Anne Spencer’s garden was adopted as a project by Hillside Garden Club in September 1983. The original garden, with its young shrubs and trees, was an open, sunny garden with masses of flowers and grass paths. To reproduce this after years of growth was not possible or practical. […]
“Down on the Shore” in Dorchester County, MD lies 25,000 acres of pristine beauty, Blackwater Refuge. Yesterday Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge celebrated the 13th Annual Eagle Festival. Blackwater is a major Atlantic Flyway for waterfowl and a sanctuary for the American bald eagle. The American bald eagle took center stage with Harriet Tubman. A program […]
Ms. Maggie Smith Dressed in Flowers from Downton Abbey For podcasts of Philadelphia Flower Show go to: CarlislePodcasts.net Just when you think how can the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society pull off a better flower show than the year before, here it is. Brilliant! Indeed that is the theme of the salute to Great Britain. England has […]
ANNOUNCING THE 2013 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 – SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013 About: Four anchoring weekends and daily programming throughout the metro-DC region. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Key dates include: Wednesday, March 20 – Pink Tie Party fundraiser presented by Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Escada Cherry […]
Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison is a lovely thought-provoking 11 minute landscape film to be found on http:/lalh.org/films/designing-in-the-prairie-spirit/ produced by Robin Karson of the Library of American Landscape History. Darrel Morrison grew up on an Iowa farm. He was influenced by the movement of the grasses and the clouds over […]
October at the Farmer’s market in Easton, MD, this little gem was for sale. “I have to have this,” a common gardener’s refrain, was compelling enough. Somewhere in the back of my little brain was stored an image of this Sacred Lily, although I could never have told you a thing about it. Tolerates droughty […]
Students, your take-home exam, the final for this semester is as follows: write a five page paper on the best landscape architect there ever was in the United States. In my unbiased view, the answer is Frederick Law Olmsted. Your assignment is to explain how his manipulation of nature was for the good of […]
Edith Wharton was a writer in the late 1900s into the first third of the 20th Century. The biographer, R.W.B. Lewis writes in his book, Edith Wharton A Biography that Ms. Wharton scoured the Italian countryside to study and write about its beauty and to document its many villa gardens. Mr. Lewis refers to an […]
Sue Olsen, a founding member and first president of the Hardy Foundation Quarterly recently spoke at the Dunn Gardens, a 10 acre garden overlooking the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains designed by the Olmsted Brothers. Ms Olsen, owner of Foliage Gardens Fern Nursery, is author of the Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns, published by Timber […]
Poplar Island At a Glance video overview – 37 seconds Poplar Island, a 1140 acre island in the mid-1800s, whittled down to 3 acres in the late 1900s. It is being restored from beneficial dredged material from the shipping channels of the Chesapeake Bay the lead to the Port of Baltimore. The U.S. Army […]
Ladew Topiary Gardens situated in the hunt country of Northern Maryland hosted Judith B. Tankard, a landscape historian and author of the newly published book, Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden. Gertrude Jekyll was an artist who applied her keen eye of color to her garden beds, Ms. Tankard explained. Her study of color […]
This just in (over the wire?). Friend gives friend fern. What appeared to be a political blunder this afternoon, a gardener from outside the beltway gave a gardener from inside the beltway a native fern. It was a tense scene as the city gardener put her spade into the ground to uproot the fern’s crown. […]
