The winter garden is a truly low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy – no weeding, no watering and no deadheading! The winter landscape may be quiescent, but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. Landscape horticulturist […]
In this talk, Dr. Lopez will focus on the history of botany in Mexico (including the southwestern United States that were previously part of Mexico), drawing from his new book, Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914. Rooted in Place traces historical transformations in the relationship between nature […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson memorably said, “The earth laughs in flowers,” which captures the joy people find in cottage gardens and cheerful urban flower plantings. Unlike color, fragrance is ephemeral, invisible, and hard to describe, but just as powerful! It summons memories, provides comfort, and often takes gardeners and garden visitors to exotic parts of the […]
