Garden History
“Powerscourt is an aristocratic garden laid out with taste, knowledge and imagination. It is the last garden of its size and quality to ever have been created,” writes Peter Coats, author of “Great Gardens of the World.” “Garden design was soon to pass from the hands of the architect and artist into the hands of […]
Powerscourt, Ireland is one of the 36 “Great Gardens of the Western World”, writes Peter Coats, in his book of the same title originally published in 1963 by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. and later published in 1968 by The Hamlin Publishing Group, Ltd., London. “Some miles south of Dublin on the lower slopes of […]
The Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants: The “Glass Flowers” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is always in bloom in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We visited the museum some 15 years ago with our children and delighted in the collection made possible by the generosity of a mother and her daughter, Elizabeth and Mary […]
The Eastern Redbud Tree is indigenous to Maryland, a lovely understory tree to purple your landscape. Here is one, reaching for the sun. In the “Gardener’s Directory, Washington D.C.& Metro Area”, an article, “Why Native” debates the two camps of thought – grow natives which recognizes our botanical heritage versus importing exotic plants. Exotics might […]
We don’t normally bounce our arrangement to and fro but here we have one that reminds us of a blue paper cone full of whitish yellow french fries. “Thrashers, down on the Boardwalk,” we say, “down at the ocean (Ocean City, MD) Hon!” Flip side from my better half, I asked him what the arrangement […]
This Trench Art mortar shell vase has Safari King in green and red standing straight and tall. Around are pink and lavender limonium in a swirl, adding a curve movement.
