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Isaiah Zagar began his Magic Garden in 1994, a 3,000 square foot mosaic installation that comprises an inside gallery that pours outside to a serpentine mosaic sculpture. Found objects of bicycle wheels, blue, green and brown bottles, self-made tiles and mirrors that reflect the sun rays on this South Street location in Philadelphia take up […]
For the past two years, chrysanthemums trained using traditional Japanese methods have been the centerpiece of The New York Botanical Garden’s lauded autumn offerings. This year the Botanical Garden presents more chrysanthemums than ever, showcased among the splendor and diversity of Japanese garden plants. In a Mum and Bonsai Garden, large installations of contemporary display […]
During the Chrysanthemum Festival at Longwood Gardens, October 19 through November 22, more than 20,000 colorful, blooming chrysanthemums flourish in the palatial Conservatory. Longwood’s experts have trained these fall favorites into unique forms including towering single-stemmed beauties and thousand-bloomers. The show reaches its peak bloom during the first three weeks of November. This year, a cloud of […]
One of the Queens of the Fall Flowers at the 2009 Chrysanthemum Display at the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Garden in Baltimore, MD is this lovely Senko Kenshin mum. The different cultivars displayed at the Conservatory include shapes such as anemone, spoon, quill, incurve, decorative and spider mums. Chrysanthemums wear their crown […]
The Smithsonian LIVE featuring the Smithsonian Horticulture Division recently hosted a workshop on Fall Tree Planting in late October at the Enid Haupt Garden just off the Mall. Now is the time to plant shade trees, that is trees that provide shade we were instructed. First there is some preparation to be done. Two linden trees […]
