Every time I visit the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx, I am sure to visit the Perennial Border. It is my favorite part of NYBG and it is always inspiring.
As a follow-up to my posts about visiting gardens in Philadelphia over Memorial Day weekend, I was intrigued to see Judith Dobrzynski’s article in The New York Times about her own Philadelphia garden tour. In her article “Philadelphia’s Gardens of Delight” from June 5th, she visited four gardens, including two I recently visited, Chanticleer and Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore. She also visited Jenkins Arboretum (featuring azaleas and rhododendrons that I have not yet visited) and Bartram’s Garden (which I have visited, but is unfortunately in a very rough part of town). Ms. Dobrzynski needs to add Morris Arboretum and Linden Hill Nursery to her next visit.
For the full article, including slide show, click here. She concludes: “An overview of gardens open to the public in the Philadelphia area is at http://www.greaterphiladelphiagardens.org/.”
Burpees’ Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, PA
Friday and Saturday, July 10-11
Open from 10 am – 4 pm each day
Take a tour of Fordhook Farm and see our featured varieties of beautiful Hydrangea. The Midsummer Garden speaker will be:
Michael Dirr – Hydrangeas and Other Flowering Shrubs: What’s New and the Best of Old, from Abelia to Virburnum
For more information, click here. If you’re not familiar with Michael Dirr, he is a legend and one of the world’s foremost experts on trees, hydrangeas, and viburnum. I highly recommend his books.
As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Piet Oudolf’s High Line Gardens Open in New York City), the blog inhabitat: design will save the world, has great pictures of the gardens here:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/09/new-yorks-high-line-park-in-the-sky-opens-today/
As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Great Blog Posts About Piet Oudolf), the High Line in New York City opened this week. From Nicolai Ouroussoff’s architectural review in The New York Times:
“A subtle play between contemporary and historical design, industrial decay and natural beauty sets the tone. The surface of the deck, for example, is made of concrete planks meant to echo the linearity of the old tracks. The path slips left and right as it advances, so that at some points you are right up against the edge of the railing and at others you are enveloped in the gardens.
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And those gardens have a wild, ragged look that echoes the character of the old abandoned track bed when it was covered with weeds, just a few years ago. Wildflowers and prairie grasses mix with Amelanchier bushes, their branches speckled with red berries. Mr. Corner designed planters to hold the taller trees, and the Gansevoort entry is marked by a cluster of birches. On Saturday the gardens were swarming with bees, butterflies and birds. I half expected to see Bambi.”
For the full article, click here.
As a follow-up to my post about my visit to the Morris Arboretum, here is more information about the fabulous garden sculpture that was pictured in my post. It’s one of the most creative and awesome (in the true sense of that word) structures I’ve ever seen in any garden. I wonder if I can get my husband to build something like that for my garden?
Download a Brochure about The Summer Palace
Some Statistics:
*Over 25 feet high
*Built in only 19 days (March 30 – April 17, 2009)
*Over 75 Volunteers helped to construct it
*Made mostly of willow, dogwood, maple and birch
*Materials were gathered locally
*No nails or other hardware were used
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“On display in the Morris Arboretum’s Madeleine K. Butcher Sculpture Garden, the site-specific piece consists of three rounded “layers” with a top that resembles the quintessential onion-dome characteristic of Russian and Byzantine architecture.”
heirloom gardener: The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days 2009: Opening America’s Best Private Gardens
As a follow-up to this prior post, I unfortunately had to miss the open days due to a family emergency. Fortunately, Mary from the Little Red House blog posted some lovely pictures of the day:
Related Post: Garden Tour in Philadelphia, Part I: Chanticleer 
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