National Public Lands Day National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance our public lands. Join us locally as we work to improve the trails at the FDR site. Saturday, September 29, 10:00am-3:00pm WHERE: Meet in the Wallace Center parking lot at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic […]

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Mollie Ridout, Director of Horticulture for the Historic Annapolis Foundation and of the William Paca House in Annapolis, Maryland, writes of the distinctive style of gardening found in the mid-18th to early 19th century, the Falling Garden. Her article which appears in the quarterly newsletter of The Southern Garden History Society (Fall 2011, XXIV) describes […]

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Library of Landscape Architecture History Books Anchor June Festivities in Chicago Chicago resident and LALH Board member John K. Notz Jr. has organized a series of events in June to celebrate the publication of two new titles from LALH, Graceland Cemetery: A Design History by Christopher Vernon andThe Native Landscape Reader, edited by Robert E. Grese. […]

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It’s Mother’s Day weekend and the gardening mother is taken by the non-gardening father to Cylburn Arboretum’s Annual Market Day.  We went directly to the hothouse where it was single file down the line of annuals propagated by the City of Baltimore’s citizens, friends and staff.  The choice of coleuses was overwhelming.  My husband stood […]

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Funding Will Increase Public Digital Access to Natural History Illustrations (ST. LOUIS):  The Missouri Botanical Garden has been awarded a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “The Art of Life,” an initiative to identify and describe natural history illustrations from the digitized books and journals in the Biodiversity Heritage Library […]

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A Tributary to the Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, MD Courtesy: CarlisleFlowers Rachel Carson was a biologist and editor on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1936 to 1952.  She is the author of “Under the Sea-Wind” (1941) and “The Sea Around Us,” (1951).  In 1962, “The Silent Spring” appeared.  Ms. Carson […]

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Dame Sylvia Crowe, an English landscape designer was President of the Landscape Institute in the late 1950’s.  She was a land planner in England as Frederick Law Olmsted was in the United States. Her book, “Garden Design” is one to keep in arm’s reach.   Dame Crowe writes about garden history, principles of design, materials […]

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World-Renowned French Botanist and Artist Brings Breathtaking Displays to The New York Botanical Garden The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens March 3–April 22, 2012 The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens at The New York Botanical Garden will be unlike any other orchid show ever seen. That is because the guest designer for the […]

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Gatsby and Beyond: The Fabled Gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast, A Talk Sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden Originally comprising vast areas of the North Shore of Long Island, the Gold Coast was a favorite retreat of the rich and famous.  Beginning around the turn of the century and through the 1930’s, the […]

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The century-old Herb Cottage building was badly damaged on Wednesday, September 7, when a towering crane being used to secure the earthquake- damaged pinnacles of the Cathedral’s central tower toppled during windy storm conditions, smashing the front roof and garden area of the structure. Long a main source of revenue for All Hallows Guild, the […]

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Forest Ecology for Gardeners, an interactive course lead by ecologist, Dr. Sylvan Kaufman was the first of three seminars sponsored by Adkins Arboretum on the Eastern Shore, Ridgley, Maryland. The oldest part of the forest at Adkins, adjacent to the Tuckahoe State Park, is 100 years old with oak and hickory trees most prevalent, Dr. […]

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Graceland was the home of Elvis Presley, a short drive from center city Memphis, Tennessee where he recorded his songs at the Sun Recording Studio before RCA.  We visited his colonial mansion the week after the anniversary of his death, a date that is memorialized by fans around the world.  This statement is not without […]

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