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After the rose, jasmine is one of the most powerful and captivating scents. It takes 6 million jasmine flowers to make one kilo of jasmine essence. Longwood Garden recent’s show, “Making Scents, the Art and Passion of Fragrance” was captivating and left behind the intoxicating smell of the ingredients used to make perfume at the […]
The cold weather may be upon us but there is still plenty to enjoy around the RHS Recommended Gardens. Please check opening times and admission arrangements before you travel as free entry may not apply for the whole of the season. RHS Recommended Gardens for winter www.rhs.org.uk Glasshouses The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire St Andrews […]
(ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden operates the most extensive residential garden recycling program in the nation. With the addition of 128,000 pounds of horticultural waste in 2010, the Garden’s Plastic Pot Recycling program has saved over 978,000 pounds of plastic garden pots, cell packs and trays from landfills to date. “Providing an alternative to pitching pots by […]
On a recent trip to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, this lovely camellia, Camellia sasanqua Narumigate, fragrant and long blooming caught our sight and scent. The shrub growing in their Conservatory is being tested by Longwood’s horticulturists who are pollinating with pollen the Camellia azalea to produce an ever-blooming species. Their goal is to […]
Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA trained this towering single-stemmed chrysanthemum with over 700 blooms for their annual Festival of Chrysanthemums, a lovely site as you enter their Conservatory. Chrysanthemums of different hues and topiary shapes including butterflies and spirals appear around every corner. Thirteen million feet of wire are used by Longwoods’ staff to […]
