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The Kitchen Garden at Magnolia Mound – by Camm Morton
Magnolia Mound’s Kitchen Garden has been a project of the Louisiana Master Gardeners of Baton Rouge for over 15 years. It has seen many changes in those years, the most recent of which is a... Read More
Magnolia – Winter 2021
The latest Magnolia publication featuring Mount Vernon’s very own Dean Norton is now available. If you are a member, your beautiful printed copy will be arriving … Read More
Update on the Hidden Town Project at Old Salem
Featured image: Rena Hill, resident of Happy Hill. Photo Credit: Across the Creek Collection, Old Salem, Inc., Courtesy of Sam McMurray This article is an … Read More
Magnolia – Fall 2020
The latest issue of Magnolia explores Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Park. Read More
Landscapes of Slavery, Landscapes of Freedom
Image courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art – View of Mulberry, House and Street, ca. 1800, By Thomas Coram (American, 1756 – 1811); Oil on … Read More
COVID Disbands the Choir
Something happened around the first of May and the fog began to lift as well as my spirit and the entries and their titles in my journal. “Yucca Earns its Name-Bright Edge,” “Spreading Goodness,” “Small... Read More
Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead
For years the contributions of American female landscape architects have been recognized, but perhaps never so poignantly as now. During months of lockdown and pandemic-related upheaval, many people across our country have rediscovered the joys... Read More
The Curious Cushaw
The holiday dinner menu was classic American - turkey, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, yams, various green vegetables, congealed salad, freshly toasted salted pecans, and the family favorite cushaw made sweet and scrumptious with sugar,... Read More
Peggy Singlemann Receives Award
The Richmond, Virginia-based public media program “Virginia Home Grown” recently received a Silver Telly Award for a unique “Tips from Maymont” segment on pond plants. The … Read More
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