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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
