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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
