Yearly Archives: 2009
My marjoram/oregano just blossomed and how the bees alight. This arrangement is a sphere of lavendar and white phlox, sedum and oregano. The herb acts as a green with a flower and an aroma as well.
Preview of Lawrence Halprin Oral History Module Click on the above Preview… to see video of Lawrence Halprin. The Cultural Landscape Foundation has given their permission for us to access this Oral History of Lawrence Halprin Preview. Mr. Halprin, a landscape architect for over 50 years, designed Heritage Park in Fort Worth, Texas which has […]
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. […]
