Garden History
Home of George Washington, Mount Vernon looks out over the Potomac River. His gardens included a pleasure garden, a kitchen garden and a greenhouse. The design of his greenhouse is thought to have been influenced by Margaret Tilghman of Mount Clare in Baltimore, MD. The General was keenly interested in what plants would grow in […]
Mount Clare was built as a summer home by Charles Carroll, Barrister in 1756. Mr. Carroll, Barrister (as opposed to four other Charles Carrolls living at the time in Annapolis, MD, therefore the distinction Barrister) married Margaret Tilghman from the Eastern Shore of MD (while single Charles paid 20 schillings a year as a “persistent […]
Pieris (andromeda) has flower buds all winter. While slow to grow, white blossoms are soon to arrive. Biological twins without the press.
Philosophically speaking, we like dead flowers, that is those we have arranged and then died. Not all hold their beauty in death but many do and their lasting image implants in our brain, so that we may do over in some fashion the image we once knew. To Be Mulched
Question: the waxy leaves of the elaeagnus, the reaching out spider mum, and the daisies are fine but how open should the tulips be before you give them away?
We both will have to work at naming all these wonderful species, but today we shall just rest our eyes upon their beauty.
