by Carlisle | May 13, 2012 | Carlisle Flowers
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 | Sep 24, 2011 | Carlisle Flowers
A trip to Memphis, Tennessee is not complete unless you gather at the grand Peabody Hotel around 4:00 pm to get a front row seat in the resplendent lobby for the Duck March. There is a balcony overlooking the “parade” if you are a late arriver. The...
by Carlisle | Aug 5, 2011 | Carlisle Flowers
The following article is from the www.biltmore.com website. Olmsted’s Vision When George Vanderbilt decided to make Western North Carolina his home, the Biltmore Estate, he hired the founding father of American landscape architecture—Frederick Law Olmsted—to...
by Carlisle | Jun 22, 2011 | Carlisle Flowers
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,...
by Carlisle | Feb 17, 2011 | Carlisle Flowers
THE 2011 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MARCH 26 – SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2011 The National Cherry Blossom Festival is Washington DC’s and the nation’s greatest celebration offering 16 days of diverse programming that largely is free and open to...
