Visiting the 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A A report from this year's Philadelphia International Flower Show—snapshots and observations from a visitor who has been going to the show for decades!
View Article2011 National Cherry Blossom Festival
This past weekend I went for a getaway (or mini-break, as Bridget Jones would say) with my husband to Washington, D.C., and I had a chance to see all the flowering trees that are still in bud form in...
View ArticleThe Gardens of Philadelphia's Rodin Museum
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Philadelphia's Rodin Museum sits on the city's Benjamin Franklin Parkway and just unveiled a massive renovation of its gardens by the landscape firm Olin. We take a tour...
View ArticlePhiladelphia: Saturday Afternoon Walking Tour
Viaductgreene elevated railway. Photo courtesy of Viaductgreene.Philadelphia’s industrial past and garden future can be explored through a walking tour of a proposed three mile long railway park called...
View ArticlePhiladelphia: The Magic Gardens
Iconography and typography at The Magic Gardens.Spend any time around South Street and you will notice them. There are mosaics on building facades, down alleys, under window boxes and on rooftops....
View ArticlePhiladelphia: Garden Shopping Extravaganza
What’s a weekend without a little shopping? We visited several distinct garden retailers, each with their own take on garden lifestyle. Terrain, the best known of the three, is just outside of the city...
View ArticlePhiladelphia: Community Gardens to Visit
Spring Gardens Community GardenSince 1995, this city block just north of the art museum at 18th and North Streets has been home to Spring Gardens Community Garden, a neighborhood transforming community...
View ArticleGarden Destination: Philadelphia
Twenty first century Philadelphia straddles its historical past and the future in a way that could only happen in America’s horticultural heart. William Penn originally envisioned the city as a utopian...
View ArticleLiving Legacy: Mount Auburn
Try to picture what cemeteries were like a couple hundred years ago—maybe you better not. The standard practice in Europe and the United States was interment in churchyard burial grounds, and by the...
View ArticleEastern Philosophies: Mt. Cuba Center
The late Mr. and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland founded their estate, Mt. Cuba in Delaware, in 1935. During the 1960s, their concern for the fast-disappearing native wildflowers of the Piedmont region...
View ArticleA Celebrated New York Garden: Wave Hill
A few gardens go beyond mere beauty, with groundbreaking innovation that educates and delights us with the possibilities inherent in putting plants together. Wave Hill in Bronx, New York, is just such...
View ArticleBotanic Superlatives: Oldest Topiary Garden in the US
The first topiary sculptures were trimmed in 1st century Roman villas. By the 16th century, topiary had become an emblem of European landscape design, and it was embraced by colonial American gardens...
View ArticleThe Return of the Untermyer Gardens
The Persian walled gardens contain water features signature to the style, including two channels that intersect at a central basin. The four water elements symbolize the four rivers of paradise.In...
View ArticleLessons from Chanticleer
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View ArticleInspiration Point: Philip Johnson's Glass House
A view of Philip Johnson's Glass House, in New Canaan, Connecticut.read more
View ArticlePhiladelphia: Nature-Inspired Outdoor Murals
Mural at Olive and Brown streets.Mural at Callowhill and 19th streets.One of Philadelphia’s most unique characteristics has been created over the past thirty years via the Mural Arts. In every...
View ArticleGiving Thanks for Winter Squash
"Of the nearly 500 colonists living at Jamestown in the fall of 1609, only 60 remained by the spring of 1610. This period is remembered as "the starving time". The following year remaining colonists...
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