Royal College of Physicians – Summer in the Medicinal Garden
Fancy a tour with gardens that are different? Spend a season of afternoons exploring medical plants & herbal medicines at the Royal College of Physicians London
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Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show: Poem of Nature
At the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show March 21 – 25, Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, there will be a haven, a Welcome Garden
Public Parks; Private Gardens: Paris to Provence at The Met
What a wonderful way to celebrate Spring and Summer in New York, telling the story about the role parks and gardens have played in the evolution of modern life
New York Botanical Garden Art & Antiques Show – Heaven Scent
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has wondrous events planned for Spring and Summer including their annual NYBG Garden Art & Antiques Fair starting May 3 – 6
Elizabeth Murray Monterey Studios – Monet’s Garden Giverny
Living Life in Full Bloom artist author speaker travel guide Elizabeth Murray, Monterey California, weaves threads of destiny with passion, color and creativity
What Do You Know? Play our Quiz: Design & Decorative Arts
What do you know about design history and the decorative arts and the evolution of taste from antiquity to the present day
Six Square Metres by Margaret Simons – Book Review by Meldi
Her day job is as the Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. Her personal sanctuary is her vegetable garden in an inner city suburb of Melbourne which comprises six square metres. Reading this book on gardening – which Margaret Simons cautions early on is…
Salomon de Caus Innovator – Gardens Baroque to Rococo Spirit
17th century garden design reflected formality until Salomon de Caus invented fountains, giving impetus to the idea of the fantastic and bizarre giving pleasure
William Kent and the English idyll – The Quest for Nature
William Kent English architect, interior designer, painter & landscape architect ‘leaped the fence’ & saw all nature was a garden’ & designed the perfect house
French Garden Style – Josephine at Château de Malmaison
Josephine, Empress of France from 1804 for over a decade cultivated her garden style at Chateau Malmaison, playing an important role in the evolution of botany
Wild Medicine – Healing Plants at New York Botanical Garden
The NYBG recently opened its annual summer exhibition Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around The World, an ongoing narrative about the nature of modern society
Empress Josephine at Château Malmaison – Woman of Influence
An impressive woman, Josephine (as Napoleon decided she should be known), aided his route to power and had a profound influence on the future of horticulture
A Fascination for Flowers
The fascination for man with flowers has been their incredible ability to adapt when displaced from their original environment to another where they flourish and develop new characteristics to suit the regions in which they find themselves. Primitive man, as a hunter and gatherer, was fully aware his existence relied…
Claude Monet Captured & Conveyed First & Lasting Impressions
Claude Monet captured and conveyed the illusionary mesmerizing momentary quality of his first and lasting impressions observed in his glorious garden at Giverny
Heaven Scent
The human desire for more than a subsistence lifestyle is fulfilled, to a large degree, by the beauty and visual satisfaction we find in gardens. The organization of gardens at different times in history and in different places has been based on assumptions about ‘man’s relationship with nature’. Gardens emphasize…
Finding Paradise on Earth
From the earliest times gardens were associated with shade, running water; fragrance and fresh produce and therefore represented peace and prosperity. Each visit to a garden is a unique experience because its plants, ornaments, views and garden buildings appear in a sequence that can never exactly be repeated ever again….