Carlisle Flowers
“Stone in the Garden: Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects,” a book written by Gordon Hayward, 2001, W.W. Norton & Company, shows the reader where sky meets the earth, stone and water. “You can understand the logic of placing boulders and large rocks along a waterfall or stream (showing the Portland Japanese Garden waterfall as […]
Garden at Woodbrook: (1930) Cloisters of Loveliness: a sheltered nook in a garden at Woodbrook In February we were pleased to show the work of A. Aubrey Bodine, a former photo-journalist for the Baltimore Sun whose work won him recognition worldwide. “Crooked Trees” showed the stark contrast of snow curiously laying […]
Met a wonderful woman this past week whose husband, a World War II veteran, died the week before. He was buried in a cemetery for veterans north of Baltimore. She said that the family and friends were not allowed to go to the grave site to bid their final adieus. Instead they had to watch […]
Yesterday was Tulip Dig at Sherwood Gardens. Every Saturday of Memorial Weekend the public can dig tulip bulbs for 30 cents a piece. After consulting the lay-out of the gardens I choose “Texas Gold” to brighten my garden next Spring. Advised to put bone meal in a whole about 6 inches down I […]
Guess what we had for breakfast this morning. The ones you don’t see here!
Alexandre Descubes, born in Mauritia in the 1850s, was first employed by his country as a cartographer. Later he worked for India when he painted watercolor botanical drawings of the native habitats of India, Pakistan, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, the Himalayans and the Malayan Peninsula. Extensive botanical info on each painting includes the family, genus, species […]
