Garden History
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and the gardening mother is taken by the non-gardening father to Cylburn Arboretum’s Annual Market Day. We went directly to the hothouse where it was single file down the line of annuals propagated by the City of Baltimore’s citizens, friends and staff. The choice of coleuses was overwhelming. My husband stood […]
Funding Will Increase Public Digital Access to Natural History Illustrations (ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden has been awarded a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “The Art of Life,” an initiative to identify and describe natural history illustrations from the digitized books and journals in the Biodiversity Heritage Library […]
A Tributary to the Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, MD Courtesy: CarlisleFlowers Rachel Carson was a biologist and editor on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1936 to 1952. She is the author of “Under the Sea-Wind” (1941) and “The Sea Around Us,” (1951). In 1962, “The Silent Spring” appeared. Ms. Carson […]
Dame Sylvia Crowe, an English landscape designer was President of the Landscape Institute in the late 1950’s. She was a land planner in England as Frederick Law Olmsted was in the United States. Her book, “Garden Design” is one to keep in arm’s reach. Dame Crowe writes about garden history, principles of design, materials […]
World-Renowned French Botanist and Artist Brings Breathtaking Displays to The New York Botanical Garden The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens March 3–April 22, 2012 The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens at The New York Botanical Garden will be unlike any other orchid show ever seen. That is because the guest designer for the […]
Gatsby and Beyond: The Fabled Gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast, A Talk Sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden Originally comprising vast areas of the North Shore of Long Island, the Gold Coast was a favorite retreat of the rich and famous. Beginning around the turn of the century and through the 1930’s, the […]
