Garden History
Check your flight now for Chicago to see these wonderful Mayan inspired ruins at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show. www.chicagoflower.com Del Agua Viene La Vida (From Water Comes Life) National Museum of Mexican Art—Chicago Designed by Kane Brothers Water Features—Burr Ridge, Ill. Inspired by an ancient Mayan Galactic butterfly symbol representing all consciousness—past, […]
The Philadelphia Flower Show drew a record 48,000 people on Saturday, March 7th, 2009. All toll, 245,000 attended the week long event. “Bella Italia” with ancient Roman gardens, a Venetian canal, views from the Alps, Milan’s haute couture, and art in a Florence garden (with an Irish Blarney stone exhibit included too,) gave testament to […]
Ladew Topiary Gardens, Saturday, May 2, will be hosting a sale of hard to find perennials, annuals, unusual exotics and decorative and architectural accessories. Speakers, Bunny Williams, co-owner of Treillage, is an interior designer whose expertise extends to the outdoor room as well. Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, authors of newly published book, “Our Life […]
A poem by Tennyson, a necessary poem to be memorized by a Victorian child (as noted in the book, “The Gardens of Emily Dickinson” by Judith Farr with Louise Carter) shows a love for wildflowers, uncultivated and small, flowers loved by Emily Dickinson. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, […]
