Recently with the help of Zoom I attended a wonderful lecture on Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) by landscape architect Lauren Martin. It got me thinking of Olmsted's genius. He is, as we all know, the country's most signficiant landscape designer…
No middle ground when it comes to the popular plant known as canna. You either like it or you don't. It remains, nonetheless, a popular flower for the summer garden bed. Writer and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey wrote about the…
Yesterday I took a ride to the New England Botanic Garden, near Worchester, Massachusetts. I traveled to meet up with the New England Hosta Society at its annual meeting. I have been a member for many years. I enjoy all…
I continue to read the great book English Garden Eccentrics. The main idea is that certain gardeners over the centuries have chosen an usual form of gardening. You might called these people 'eccentrics.' That is prcisely what the author Todd…
New York nineteenth-century seed company owner James Vick (1812-1882) included a large collection of flowers in his catalog. He also offered some plants, like the caladium, that you grow for its colorful leaves. Vick wrote in his catalog of 1873…