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Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison is a lovely thought-provoking 11 minute landscape film to be found on http:/lalh.org/films/designing-in-the-prairie-spirit/ produced by Robin Karson of the Library of American Landscape History. Darrel Morrison grew up on an Iowa farm. He was influenced by the movement of the grasses and the clouds over […]
October at the Farmer’s market in Easton, MD, this little gem was for sale. “I have to have this,” a common gardener’s refrain, was compelling enough. Somewhere in the back of my little brain was stored an image of this Sacred Lily, although I could never have told you a thing about it. Tolerates droughty […]
Students, your take-home exam, the final for this semester is as follows: write a five page paper on the best landscape architect there ever was in the United States. In my unbiased view, the answer is Frederick Law Olmsted. Your assignment is to explain how his manipulation of nature was for the good of […]
Edith Wharton was a writer in the late 1900s into the first third of the 20th Century. The biographer, R.W.B. Lewis writes in his book, Edith Wharton A Biography that Ms. Wharton scoured the Italian countryside to study and write about its beauty and to document its many villa gardens. Mr. Lewis refers to an […]
Sue Olsen, a founding member and first president of the Hardy Foundation Quarterly recently spoke at the Dunn Gardens, a 10 acre garden overlooking the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains designed by the Olmsted Brothers. Ms Olsen, owner of Foliage Gardens Fern Nursery, is author of the Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns, published by Timber […]
