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FINALLY RAIN 🌱 Clipped just before our dry gar

FINALLY RAIN
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Clipped just before our dry gardens received a much needed rain.
The smell of the flowers and the sound of the rain are intoxicating.

Spring nights in the South are a gift to us all!

Spring nights in the South are a gift to us all!
🌱

Many of you will remember touring the restoration

Many of you will remember touring the restoration of the Lanier home on the mountaintop while in Birmingham in 2019.
@alleenwcater had a lot of positive feedback on the Birmingham meeting and tours while attending the recent Mount Vernon meeting, including many questions about the progress that The Laniers have made on their Herculean project.
Alleen reached out to Bruce this week and he sent the photo above of the garden beside the tea house and had this to say,
“We are comfortably settled in now. We moved in before Thanksgiving 2019, so we were fortunate to get to spend a lot of time together with the kids in the spring of 2020. I almost feel guilty about being that comfortable during quarantine. Almost.”
@brucelanier went on to say,
“I actually learned during quarantine that I really enjoy gardening. I had never really tried it seriously, but (mostly out of necessity) I took it up. I started a vegetable garden in the ruins of the greenhouse (which is entering Year 3 of its newfound use as a muscadine trellis). My neighbor and I are also about to start our 3rd season growing sweet potatoes on the terraces, an effort that we wrap up with a harvest party on a Saturday around Halloween that I will try to remember to invite you to (people will do anything for a Bloody Mary, particularly during a pandemic, and that appears to include helping you cultivate tubers).
We are working on the last phases of major yard renovations. That part might make your people (SGHS) cringe a little, but we are trying to be tasteful as I feel my way through garden design.”
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Seems that the Laniers know us pretty well as SGHS partiers, drinkers and, oh yes, gardeners!
I see an Alabama gathering on the Halloween horizon!
Our thanks again to the Laniers for their stewardship and preservation work in Birmingham and for their interest and support of the Southern Garden History Society!
@brucelanier see you one Saturday before Halloween!

PLANT A TREE 🌱 It’s Arbor Day! Planting tree

PLANT A TREE
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It’s Arbor Day!
Planting trees is always a good idea!

The tulip display in the upper garden at @mount_ve

The tulip display in the upper garden at @mount_vernon did not disappoint.
This historic variety, Silver Standard, dates to 1760.

https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/gardens-landscapes/plant-finder/item/silver-standard-tulip/
This and many other historic varieties were represented in the garden and were discussed in the lecture by @cornettpeggy
at the conference.

Gail Griffin Organizer, Board Treasurer, general

Gail Griffin
Organizer, Board Treasurer, general holder togetherer 🌱
Thank you, Gail!
@gailcollmanngriffin

Our Mount Vernon experience NEVER disappoints 🌱

Our Mount Vernon experience NEVER disappoints 🌱
It is an unexplainable feeling to be floating high above a place as historic and beautiful in a hot air balloon!
Check out the shadow of the balloon in the last photo!
Join us! We have so much fun!
Thank you to @dean_norton and his team!

On to Mount Vernon! • On the Cherry Blossom pad

On to Mount Vernon!
•
On the Cherry Blossom paddle wheeler on the Potomac to the dock at Father George’s!
An ethereal experience!
A privilege 🌱

SO MUCH FUN 🌱

🌱 What an interesting couple of lectures this m

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What an interesting couple of lectures this morning!
All about where plants came from and where they are going! 🌱
Thank you Peter Del Tredici
Of @arnold_arboretum and @organiccowboy Doug Fine hemp farmer.
Onward to visit Father George @mount_vernon

At the close of a wonderful opening day of fellows

At the close of a wonderful opening day of fellowship with like minded friends!
@historicgunstonhall
We enjoyed learning from @cornettpeggy
We were inspired by @chip.callaway
Thank you @dean_norton 🌱

The old guard and the new! Huge amounts of knowled

The old guard and the new!
Huge amounts of knowledge enjoying the evening at the Lee-Fendall house in Alexandria.
Cheers to Keeli and Bill !
@keelimichaelwindhamhlgd
@southerngardenhistory

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