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“A Rose by Any Name: The Little Known Lore and Deep-Rooted History of Rose Names”‘ authored by Douglas Brenner, former editor and chief of Martha Stewart’s “Living” and Steve Scaniello, curator of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden begins, “Why does ‘Barbara Streisand’ share a bed with ‘Queen Elizabeth’? And Why is ‘Sexy Rexy’ with them? Because […]
The International Rose Test Garden high above the City of Portland, Oregon dates back to 1917 making it the oldest rose test garden in the United States. New rose varieties are tested and the City of Portland awards the “Gold Medal” award annually for the best introduction. Fourteen different characteristics are evaluated: plant habit, vigor, […]
“…my eyes are fixed in fascinated admiration on a glorious rose, its pale gold, cream and ivory petals blending to a lightly ruffled edge of delicate carmine. There it is before me, majestic, full of promise, and I am convinced it will be the greatest rose of the century,” so wrote Mr. Robert Pyle of […]
Emory Knoll Farms of Street, Maryland explains on their website the difference between an extensive green roof versus an intensive one. The extensive uses plants with foliage of two to six inches, low-lying plants designed to provide maximum groundcover. An intensive green roof uses foliage of one to fifteen feet to provide more of a […]
A visit to Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore, Maryland took us to the Worthley Garden, a garden full of sedums. Scott Ritchie, the Acting Green House Supervisor, explained how he created its berms with sand, lime, gypsum and rock, a climate suitable for the cliff sedum, S. quadragulane, blue spruce, sedum angelina, and album coral carpet […]
