Garden
Reynolda House American Art & Gardens; Twig Reading, Mustardseed Moonshine Ramekins and Molly Dingledine Jewelry
"... the property shall be perpetually held ... for the operation and maintenance of a botanical garden having an aesthetic and educational value... ."— Deed of Gift, 1958 more »
LuEsther Mertz Library, NYBG, Fruits and Flowers of Winter
Gardener, if you listen, listen well: Plant for your winter pleasure, when the months dishearten; Plant to find a fragile note touched from the brittle violin of frost.Vita Sackville-West, The Garden more »
Mrs. Delany and her Circle, at the Yale Center for British Art
At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland, embarked on a series of one thousand botanical collages, or “paper mosaics.” These were the crowning achievement of a life defined by creative accomplishment. more »
Eccentric Enthusiasts from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A witness to her planting method for Lilium giganteum (now called Cardiocrinum giganteum) bulbs once deemed [Gertrude] Jekyll a sorceress. On that day, having dug a sizable hole and added some leaf mold and sand, the famed gardener also tossed in a freshly killed rabbit. Then she counseled, "Now, always seat the bulbs clockwise," a task she accomplished with a firm rightward twist before filling in the hole with topsoil. Four months later, she apparently had lilies just a hare under five feet tall. more »
