As a child I was taken to Planting Fields, an arboretum that is now a state park, in Oyster Bay on Long Island. As an undergraduate I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland and as a graduate student I found myself wondering into the Rhododendron Gardens in Bremen, Germany during some free time [...]
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A Green and Pleasant Place
Posted in As Event on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forcing Spring
Posted in As Event on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the winter of 1994 the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York premiered its “Dutch Connection” exhibition, during which thousands of forced bulbs bloomed en masse in the conservatory of Eastman’s mansion. The mid-winter explosion of tulip, narcissus and daffodil flowers was the brainchild of then-landscape curator Deirdre Cunningham. In February 2008 the present [...]
