Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff

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…

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April 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

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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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