Botanic Gardens, Gardens
Missouri Botanical Garden
While reading The Thoughtful Gardener by British garden designer Jinny Blom on an unseasonably cold and snowy early April…
April 12, 2017-
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Book ReviewsBook Review: Oxford College Gardens
While staying in London last June I took the train to Oxford to visit the Botanic Garden. It had…
May 1, 2016 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, Landscape History, LondonOxford Botanic Garden
Oxford, where windows open into other worlds……..“ It’s quite possibly a very good thing that I had not read…
April 2, 2016 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, Landscape HistoryPhipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
I have recently returned from Pittsburgh, my second trip this year. While each visit had a different focus, one…
November 21, 2015 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, Landscape HistoryKaisaniemi Botanic Garden: Helsinki
I have just returned from a trip to Finland and Estonia. While traveling I received notification that Landscape Notes…
June 25, 2014 -
Botanic Gardens, Landscape HistoryBartram’s Garden: The Oldest Surviving Botanic Garden in the US
“It is no little deed to make a garden,“that greatest refreshment to the spirits of man.” But to make…
December 27, 2013 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, Landscape HistoryThe Botanical Garden of Carl Linnaeus
I have just returned from a week in Stockholm where I attended an international conference on the “Future of…
July 5, 2013 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, Landscape History, Parks, Public RealmThe Commonwealth Avenue Mall + Public Garden
Several weeks ago I attended a lecture on the history of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. The central axis of…
January 3, 2013 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, New England GardensCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens
I had the good fortune to spend the last two weeks on an island in Maine. While it…
July 20, 2012