by Carlisle | Aug 13, 2013 | Garden History
Wickliffe Castle, a home designed by Baltimore architect Wilson L. Smith, was built for Dr. and Mrs. Walter Wickes in 1912. The 182 acre estate was originally owned by Charles Carroll, a Marylander and only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. It...
by Carlisle | Apr 11, 2013 | Garden History
The “Helping Hand”, which holds up the “Wonky Conker tree,” near Kingsley Statue on Bideford Quay in England, very nearly didn’t happen at all. Some years before its construction, it was decided to chop down the mature trees on the riverbank in order to...
by Carlisle | Mar 16, 2013 | Garden History
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,...
by Carlisle | May 13, 2012 | Garden History
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and the gardening mother is taken by the non-gardening father to Cylburn Arboretum’s Annual Market Day. We went directly to the hothouse where it was single file down the line of annuals propagated by the City of...
by Carlisle | Apr 13, 2011 | Garden History
Sunday, April 17, 2011 – 5 – 8 p.m. THE VOLLMER CENTER AT CYLBURN ARBORETUM 4915 GREENSPRING AVENUE, BALTIMORE, MD 21209 Join us as Adrian Bloom of Blooms of Bressingham introduces us to his favorite garden plants and creative ways to use perennials and...
