Posts Tagged ‘public gardens’
Beatrix Farrand’s 1916 Vision for the NYBG’s Rose Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 18, 1916 On this day, renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (FAIR-rand) created a visionary rose garden plan for the New York Botanical Garden. This garden would become one of the most significant…
Read MoreFrom Seventeen to Cymbidiums: Enid Annenberg Haupt’s Horticultural Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 13, 1906 On this day, we celebrate the birth of Enid Annenberg Haupt, an American publisher and philanthropist who would come to be known as “the greatest patron American horticulture has ever…
Read MoreFrom Louvre to Landscape: How Sydney Dylan Ripley’s Vision Transformed the Smithsonian
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 31, 1972 On this day, dear garden friends, the horticulture program at the Smithsonian Gardens emerged from the fertile imagination of Sydney Dylan Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian and master of institutional…
Read MoreBlossoming Beauty: New Orleans’ Sculpture Garden Expands
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 15, 2019 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts, a most splendid unveiling is set to occur at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The institution’s beloved Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden,…
Read MoreFrederick Law Olmsted: The Aristocrat of American Landscapes
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 26, 1822 On this day, Frederick Law Olmsted, that most illustrious architect of landscapes, drew his first breath in Hartford, Connecticut. Born to a family of comfortable means, little did the world…
Read MoreJoseph Paxton’s Birkenhead Park: When Liverpool Outshone Venice
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 5, 1847 My dear fellow gardeners, one cannot help but notice the unseemly enthusiasm with which the masses descended upon Birkenhead Park upon its grand opening. The Mercury reports—and I do assure…
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