Carlisle Flowers
We marvel at the vision of a landscape designer who wroughts all the preparation time necessary to bring to fruition this lovely combination of Pickerel Rush/bog plant and the Vitex/Chaste Tree. The complementary blue spires of each are truly a work of art.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden celebrates the grand opening of new green-designed facilities by hosting Moore in America, the largest exhibition of British artist Henry Moore’s outdoor sculptures ever presented in the U.S. Moore’s monumental works are dramatically displayed among the lush, colorful plantings of the Midtown attraction, which offers new gardens, a green-designed Visitor Center and parking facility, and […]
One evening I wanted to go to a garden so I chose Cleveland, Ohio and found the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a lovely site maintained by Cleveland State University. Here’s why. “The Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America. They reveal the history of immigration to, and migration within, the United States. They comment on how […]
Happy 233rd Birthday, United States of America! July 5, 2009 5:00 am Eastern Shore, Maryland
The story of the acanthus leaf as told by Princess Grace of Monaco in her book, “My Book of Flowers” goes like this…”The acanthus was a favored plant of the Greeks, and it grows freely on the Riviera. When I look at its beautifully sculptured leaves and elegant flowers, I am reminded of the reason […]
The Copenhagen Botanical Garden and Museum is situated in the heart of Copenhagen. The garden has the largest collection of living plants in Denmark. The museum holds one of the largest herbaria of plants and fungi from all over the world. Copenhagen Botanical Garden’s Greenhouse design was influenced by The Crystal Palace in London, England. […]
