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
The latest issue of Magnolia explores Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Park.
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
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 Wonders,” “Fine Tuning and Max Pruning,” and so on. I don’t think I realized how downhearted I had been.
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 inherent in our landscapes, whether publicly (and socially distanced) or privately (safe at home).
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, eggs, butter, vanilla and nutmeg.
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
Within the pages of the Southern Garden History Society’s lastest publication of Magnolia, you will be delighted to find articles such as: Stratford Hall: An Early … Read More
Another beautiful species of Lycoris to surprise Southern gardeners in late summer is L. squamigera, known as the magic lily or naked lady. Hardy farther north than L. radiata, which was described on this website in July, L. squamigera flourishes from Maine to Texas, but needs some winter chilling to bloom well.
“In Stratford Hall: An Early Garden Restoration Revisited” Will Rieley, PLA details a project that concluded with returning a significant section of a Colonial Revival garden to a well-informed eighteenth-century configuration. The setting was the
Margaret Stones was an Australian botanical artist known for her remarkable watercolor drawings published in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew), Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and Native Flora of Louisiana. Ms. Stones died in 2018 at the age of 98. LSU Press published an oversized special folio edition of Native Flora of Louisiana in full color in the same year.
For many Southerners, the red spider lily (Lycoris radiata) is a wonderful surprise in the late summer garden. A delicate red flower of fine petals and long stamens perches atop a naked stem, giving it its common name.