Carlisle Flowers
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 […]
Sunflowers were the American queen at the Waverly Farmers’ Market this past Saturday. Five dollars for 5 stems was the going rate and people were paying it gladly. We couldn’t let well enough alone here, had to introduce Safari King to the Queen and give them a staff and some trailing eucalyptus for their royal […]
This Washington Post article makes fascinating Sunday reading. The subject, Dan Hinkley, a plant explorer has devoted his life to historically tracking the 19th and 20th century discoverers of plants in the Asia surrounds. “The ice age glaciers that erased much of the flora of Europe and North America were blocked by the Himalayas and […]
