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Westonbirt, the National Arboretum of England, is using a method to grow new plants from some of the collection’s oldest and rarest rhododendrons. The technique, known as air layering, tricks the plants into growing new roots from their branches. The roots produced are often stronger than those grown from cuttings because they have the live plant […]
Suzy Bales, author of recently published “Garden Bouquets and Beyond” came to town last night and the Hardy Club garden members greeted her with flowers from their gardens. This morning Suzy Bales arranged the clippings of azaleas, Lilac Sensation, parrot tulips, tree peonies and hellebores to the delight of her audience. “Take all the foliage […]
& Nemours Mansion & Gardens has completed a $39,000,000 restoration and re-opened the gates to its majestic landscape. This mammoth reconstruction was done over a three year period utilizing world-class conservators and craftspeople who worked on excavations, landscaped the formal gardens, drained and repaired the 800,000 gallon reflecting pool, replaced electrical systems, and refurbished statues, […]
Discover the Stories Behind Washington’s Lush Trees The Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. Free Program What stories do the trees in your neighborhood tell? Are any of them willow oaks? If so, Thomacelebrate earth day with melanie choukas-bradleys Jefferson, who designed and executed the first D.C. street tree planting on record, would have loved […]
Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy in Gardening and Food Jefferson’s Monticello garden was a Revolutionary American garden. One wonders if anyone else had ever before assembled such a collection of vegetable novelties, culled from virtually every western culture known at the time, then disseminated by Jefferson with the persistence of a religious reformer, a seedy evangelist. Here […]
