Garden History
A garden friend gave me this small plant several years ago. I didn’t know what it was and neither did she. It came from her friend’s garden. I planted it in full sun in the back of the garden so in the event I didn’t like it, no big deal. It came up the following […]
This is the view from Miss Elizabeth Lawrence’s desk. The following excerpt is from her book, Gardens in Winter: “I am writing, as always, of my own garden which I see, whenever I look up from my work, everyday in the year—never without pleasure, and seldom without seeing something in bloom. But I am not […]
Warren H. Manning came from a New England family, a family with a strong horticultural background. According to Robin Karson in her book, A Genius for Place, published by University of Massachusetts Press in association with the Library of American Landscape History, his father, Jacob Warren Manning, was considered, “the dean of the nursery trade […]
Allen Lacy, author of The Gardener’s Eye, published in 1992 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, writes that Congress made a terrible mistake in choosing the rose instead of the yucca as the nation’s floral emblem. Gertrude Jekyll, the English gardener, listed it as one of her favorite plants. Native Americans used it to make sandals […]
Green Genes: Mapping the Plant World From May 28 through October 10, the U.S. Botanic Garden examines plant relationships and how new genetic research is changing the plant family tree On Saturday, May 28, the U.S. Botanic Garden opened Green Genes: Mapping the Plant World, a garden exhibit presented on the Conservatory Terrace. The exhibit examines […]
The New Jersey State Botanical Garden, located on the central 96 acres of this 1,100-acre former country estate of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, is a distinctive botanic and architectural destination in its own right. Purchased in 1966 as New Jersey’s first “Green Acres” acquisition, NJBG features elegantly landscaped grounds containing many of the original garden designs, […]