Garden History
Lecture by McKay Jenkins at Cylburn Arboretum, Wednesday, April 3rd, 7:00pm Author of What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World In the past few years, scientists have become increasingly worried about the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies, and in our environment — and the connection these chemicals may have to […]
The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Southern Garden History Society will be held in Lynchburg, Virginia May 3 – 5, 2013. Our theme “Someone’s Been Digging in the Dirt” applies to the archeologists at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, the ladies of the Garden Club of Virginia, the Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer, the Southern Memorial […]
HISTORY OF AMERICAN CLASSIC TEA Tea thrives in growth at the Charleston Tea Plantation located on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina. Hundreds of varieties of the tea plant, the camellia sinensis, can be found here, at this American tea plantation. Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina is located in the region commonly known as the Low Country. Its […]
THE ANNE SPENCER GARDEN The restoration of Anne Spencer’s garden was adopted as a project by Hillside Garden Club in September 1983. The original garden, with its young shrubs and trees, was an open, sunny garden with masses of flowers and grass paths. To reproduce this after years of growth was not possible or practical. […]
“Down on the Shore” in Dorchester County, MD lies 25,000 acres of pristine beauty, Blackwater Refuge. Yesterday Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge celebrated the 13th Annual Eagle Festival. Blackwater is a major Atlantic Flyway for waterfowl and a sanctuary for the American bald eagle. The American bald eagle took center stage with Harriet Tubman. A program […]
Ms. Maggie Smith Dressed in Flowers from Downton Abbey For podcasts of Philadelphia Flower Show go to: CarlislePodcasts.net Just when you think how can the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society pull off a better flower show than the year before, here it is. Brilliant! Indeed that is the theme of the salute to Great Britain. England has […]
