Carlisle Flowers
The Chinese garden is the fruit of bonds forged between the Parks Department of the City of Shanghai and the Montreal Botanical Garden. The concept of the garden was the work of Le Weizhong, renowned architect and master landscaper and the then (during construction in 1990-1991) director of the Shanghai Institute of Landscape Design and […]
The Enid A. Haupt Garden is a pubic garden in the Smithsonian Institution complex in Washington, D.C. Covering over four acres, it is situated between the Castle and Independence Avenue and has provided a welcomed respite for Smithsonian visitors and residents of Washinton since it opened in 1987 as part of the redesigned Castle quadrangle. […]
Uppsala Botanic Garden, old part (“Baroque garden”), first constructed 350 years ago by Olof Rudbeck the elder, changed to present layout 260 years ago by Carl Hårleman, with the 210 year old neoclassic building Linneanum (with an orangery, still in continuous use, housing four Laurus nobilis trees planted by Linnaeus) in the background. The pyramids […]
Founded by American collector and heiress to the Post cereal empire, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens is one of the premier art collector’s museums in the United States. The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia and a world-renowned collection of eighteenth-century French decorative art and […]
Lord Baltimore came to our door the other day. His face wide with happiness. Such an esteemed visitor, the founder of our great state of Maryland, brought good tidings. The weather had finally turned hot and muggy enough that he had been able to set passage from the Islands up the Chesapeake Bay to plant […]
Enlargements of postcards from the Archives of American Gardens’ Historic Gardens Postcard Collection are on display behind the Enid A. Haupt Moon Gate Garden along the east side of the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2009. This exhibit was created and designed for the Garden Fest 2009 […]
