Posts Tagged ‘Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff’
From Garden Soil to Evening Dress: Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff’s Horticultural Education
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 26, 2017 On this day, the gardens of history parted their foliage to reveal a most fascinating figure – one Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff, whose story The Cultural Landscape Foundation saw fit to unearth…
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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