Garden Conservancy Open Days
Gardeners love looking at other people's gardens. But some of the best gardens in our country are private and rarely seen by the public. To share our country's gardening wealth, the Garden Conservancy, a national, ... [... more]
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Cactus Rustling
Use of cacti in water conserving, xeriscape landscape designs and the collection of rare cacti by "cactophiles" from around the world are a multi-million dollar business. The legal and illegal harvesting are ... [... more]
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Gardens Of Quebec
Last June, I had the opportunity to tour some gardens in Quebec province, just north of New England. Of the many gardens I saw, three stand out: a very English one on the lower St. Lawrence River, created in the ... [... more]
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Holly Shumizu
Holly Shimizu, Executive Director of the U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG) in Washington, D.C., lives a plant lover's dream. She has worked in world-famous gardens, including a year at Wisley, the Royal Horticultural ... [... more]
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Garden Guru: Howard Dill
Dill still grows giants but not for competition. In fall, visitors come to enjoy the pumpkin patch on his 90-acre farm, which has been in the family for five generations. He plants 10 acres in pumpkins for Halloween ... [... more]
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A Bloomin' Good Show
Interested in an idea for a great trip this year? Here's one for gardeners everywhere! Floriade is an international flower exposition held only every 10 years. Floriade 2002 opened in early April and runs through Oct ... [... more]
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Desert Treasures
The private, nonprofit museum was founded in 1952 by naturalist William Carr and conservationist Arthur Pack, a former editor of Nature magazine. With the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Carr had ... [... more]
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The Huntington
Make the Desert Garden the first stop on your winter visit. Located at the eastern edge of the gardens, this outdoor grouping of mature cacti and other succulents initially seems to be a mazelike jumble. Some plants ... [... more]
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Garden Guru: Holly Shimizu
Holly has great interest in reaching out to children to stimulate their imaginations and help them connect with the growing world. "I believe that our real hope is in bringing kids together with the natural world so ... [... more]
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Elvis Lives!
When Elvis sang (in "All Shook Up") "I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree," could he have had in mind one of the trees at Graceland? We'll never know, but you could grow an offspring of one of his estate's trees -- ... [... more]
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Preserving Desert Crops
The organization grew out of an effort by another nonprofit group, Meals for Millions (now called Freedom from Hunger). Fifteen years ago, MFM began a nutrition project on a Tohono O'odham (formerly Papago) ... [... more]
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Garden Guru: Lynden B. Miller
People told her she was wasting her time on gardens in the poor part of the city, that they would be vandalized and no one would ever feel safe there. Lynden ignored the advice and began designing plantings for a ... [... more]
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