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Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff
The Elmwood School Graduate April 26, 2017 On this day, The Cultural Landscape Foundation featured a new post about the German-born landscape architect, Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff. In 1913, Irma attended the Elmwood School of Gardening. In the 1980s, Irma recounted the experience in ten handwritten pages. Here’s an excerpt: “At 10:15 we went outside and did…
Read MoreApril 26, 2019 Placement of Early Spring Bloomers, Eugene Delacroix, Charles Townes, Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff, John J. Audobon, Frederick Law Olmsted, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, Justin Martin, Photo Friday, Anna Eliza Reed Woodcock, and the Michigan State Flower
How close are your earliest bloomers to your front door? Your crocus, snowdrops, iris, daffodils, tulips, forsythia, daphnes, and magnolias? When I redid my front garden last year, the designer had put all my earliest bloomers right near the front porch and walk. When I asked her reasoning, she reminded me of our long winters.…
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