Garden History
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 […]
Now on display in the Morris Arboretum’s Madeleine K. Butcher Sculpture Garden is a new, original abstract sculpture, by internationally-renowned artist Patrick Dougherty. The intriguing, site-specific piece is titled The Summer Palace and was created by Dougherty, with the help of staff and more than 75 volunteers, during a three-week Arboretum artist residency. The finished work […]
“Do you want to fly with me to Kensington Park, Never, Neverland?” Peter Pan might have asked Wendy as he took her hand. That is the version by Walt Disney that we remember. There were many versions of the story about the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Here you see Peter Pan where he takes […]
“The English artist Hogarth once added a palette with an S-curve like the one (above) to his signature on a self-portrait, with the words ‘the line of beauty.’ This serpentine shape is a favorite for flower show entries,” as written by the Editors of Better Homes and Gardens’ book, “Flower Arranging For Every Day and […]
The Dean Bond Rose Garden was established to memorialize Elizabeth Powell Bond, the Dean of Women at Swarthmore College from 1890 to 1906, and her love of roses. The garden was made possible through a bequest of Robert Pyle, Class of 1897. Designed in 1956 by the Arboretum’s then Assistant Director, Gertrude Wister, the Dean […]
