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Photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 In the first half of the nineteenth century, the most impressive sculptural monuments in America were under construction in Baltimore. Before New York, Philadelphia, and even Washington, D.C., the city built a monument to George Washington, and Baltimore commissioned the country’s first public […]
New Conservancy to Celebrate 70th Anniversary of the Opening of Dumbarton Oaks Park Dumbarton Oaks Park, a 27-acre gem in the heart of Georgetown, will receive new support and hope for restoration on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, with the announcement of the formation of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy. The park was given to the […]
National Cherry Blossom Festival ANNOUNCING THE 2011 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MARCH 26 – SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2011 The National Cherry Blossom Festival is Washington D.C.’s and the nation’s greatest springtime celebration offering 16 days of diverse programming that largely is free and open to the public. Entertaining and engaging more than one million residents […]
Drink in the breathtaking beauty of Scotland’s gardens through the lens of photographer Allan Pollok-Morris. His five-year study features the work of more than 30 renowned landscape designers and land artists, including Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Arabella Lennox-Boyd and Penelope Hobhouse. Pollok-Morris’ photographs are stunning, but clearly the gardens themselves and Scotland […]
U.S. Botanic Garden Production Facility Open House Only once each year do we invite the public to see our growing facility, the largest greenhouse complex supporting a public garden in the United States. The site, completed in 1994, includes 85,000 square feet under glass divided into 34 greenhouse bays and 16 environmental zones. In addition […]
