Garden History
The Garrett Family, railroad titans of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, lived in Evergreen House in Baltimore, MD from 1878 to the 1940s. They were collectors and philanthropists. Among their rare book collection are the signatures of every signer of the Declaration of Independence. Here is a basketball court which the Garretts converted to a […]
“Silver Bells, Silver Bells. It’s Christmas time in the city. Ring-a-ling…” You pick Elvis Presley’s version of the song or Bing Crosby’s. Both great. Here they sing with football mums and red dogwood twigs.
The Christmas tradition lives on at the Baltimore City Fire Department Cross Country Station. They’ve been drawing the child in everyone to see their Train Garden since 1952. At one time there were 220 different motors running to blow the smoke, turn the merry-go-round and let the ice skaters slide across the mirror of […]
What a gem in our own backyard. The Hampton Mansion was built by the Ridgely family in the 1790s and owned by them until the 1940s. Here is their parlor with its painted Baltimore chairs, furniture Baltimore was noted for in the early 1800s. The Ridgely family made their family fortune supplying iron to […]
Two weeks before Christmas and what a fine display of Santa’s sleigh and Frosty the Snowman surrounded by the quintessential flower for Christmas, the poinsettia. Here you see the hothouse conditions like in Mexico where the shrub winters over. Baltimore’s late Victorian Conservatory has been recently restored, celebrating its 125th anniversary and has an equally […]
Boy kicked up his heel to let us put our arrangement down for a second and turtle took to dry land so the flowers wouldn’t be drenched. How nice in the cultural district of Mount Vernon in Baltimore, MD. Statue by Bill Wierzalis.