Do you have plants on your fire escape? Do you work in a community garden? Or, do you have your own garden? Then your green-space can become a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Animal habitats are disappearing because of climate change, invasive species, and development. Each inch of land that is cleared for homes, strip malls, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
Join the Club
Posted in Gardening, Just For Fun, tagged environment, garden, martha, plants on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jardin à la française
Posted in Gardening, tagged garden on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the sixteenth century, French nobility traversed Europe and upon their return home, recreated the Italian gardens they saw: a house overlooking the property and garden ‘rooms.’ But the French also created their own landscape style. The most famous French landscape architect was André Le Nôtre who designed the country estate Vaux-le-Vicomte for a superintendent [...]
Company of the Year: MONSANTO?
Posted in Gardening, tagged environment, garden on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
PTI: We need to take a break from gardening to open January’s Forbes Magazine where Monsanto has been named the “Company of the Year.” I don’t mean to make this blog political or too opinionated, but I am very surprised. Forbes says that it bestowed this title on Monsanto because of its high revenues in [...]
Italian Renaissance Gardens
Posted in Gardening, tagged garden on January 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the 1500s, the Medici family popularized Italian Renaissance Gardens. During the 1400s, gardens became an extension of the house. They evolved from a place for cultivation to a place for contemplation, fun, dining, and enjoyment. Explorers returned to Italy from ‘discovering’ the world with seeds and plants from their voyages. Landscapes became a place [...]
Medieval Gardens
Posted in Gardening, tagged garden on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone needs food to survive, and most cultures of the world have had kitchen gardens as a resource to do so. Yes, one of the earliest forms of landscape architecture was the backyard vegetable plot. Think about it: before grocery stores, most people worked with the land to produce food. They grew fruits and vegetables. [...]
