Garden Accessories Add Charm Recently while visiting Reno I took part in a tour of gardens spread around various areas in the city. In what appeared to be a regular neighborhood I walked up the front pathway along the lawn…
Cordyline offers Victorian garden look. The tropical plant called cordyline, introduced into Europe in the early 1800s, became important during the nineteenth century Victorian period. English garden writer David Stuart writes in his book The Garden Triumphant: The Victorian Legacy…
New book celebrates NYBG’s Library Recently I came across the new book Flora Illustrata at the Boston Athenaeum. The book highlights the resources of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden. The editors, Susan M. Fraser…
New short video shows pollinators. Pollinators remain an important contributor in any garden. According to the New England Wild Flower Society, eighty percent of flowering plants depend on pollination. Yet organic farmer Jane Sorenson from River Barry Farm in Fairfax,…
Plant old fashioned annual called Calendula. From the large family of flowers called the Compositae comes the yellow or orange flower known as Calendula. Rochester, NY seedsman James Vick (1818-1882) in his seed catalog of 1880 wrote this about the…