Posts Tagged ‘botanical design’
Breaking Ground: Ellen Biddle Shipman’s Garden Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 5, 1869 Today we celebrate the birth of Ellen Biddle Shipman, a woman who found her voice in the whispers of flowers and her strength in the structure of garden walls. Ellen…
Read MoreBathrooms Like Gardens: The Iris-Inspired Sanctuary of Lady Cromer
Bathrooms Like Gardens December 18, 1930 On this day, The Boston Globe shared a little snippet called “Bathrooms like Gardens.” Here’s an excerpt: “Lady Cromer has her favorite flower, the iris, as the motif of her bathroom. The walls are painted with growing irises in flower on the bank of a river, the river being…
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