Over 1,200 visitors enjoyed our gardens in the Pacific Northwest last Saturday between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.—a pace of about 200 per hour. The Garden Conservancy Open Days Director, Laura Palmer, and I estimated that over 80% had never visited the gardens, leaving about 250 multiple time visitors. Our guess was that only about [...]
In 2001, I suffered a touch football accident, falling over a bluff next to the lawn where we were playing, cracking my ribs and puncturing my left lung. After catching a pass, I landed on the ball with one of the ends pointed to my chest, so the ribs shattered rather than broke; fragments were [...]
Over the past decade, an enormous, extraordinary botanic garden was carved just off the Atlantic Ocean shoreline of Maine’s central coast. Dedicated, risk-taking locals (full-time residents) as well as summer people took on the project when a luxury housing development fell through and the beautiful location became available.
With 228 acres on a bluff above a [...]
While out at Heronswood last week, I noticed the unexpected beauty of garden litter. I enjoyed the natural, flocking effects the earth-toned confetti gave the large, flat leaves of Petasites japonica and the glossy Darmera peltata. Our magical paths and border margins are covered with debris. It reminds me that a lot more is going [...]
If I hadn’t heard the chatter when I was at Heronswood Gardens last week, I might have missed Boeing’s saturation PR about its new jet aircraft, the 787. The buzz was brewing all over Seattle.
Two dramatic innovations make their debut: a newly designed wing and a composite skin covering half the plane. Add to them [...]
Fiona Apple
Roberts Blossom
Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida)
James Cotton
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George “Buck” Flower
Robert Plant
Penelope Tree
In Memoriam:
Allan Bloom
Jack Lemon
Waverly Root
Several years ago I saw an exhibition of Aztec art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Having lived in Central America, I looked forward to seeing both familiar objects as well as new ones. But the show far exceeded my expectations. The Mexican government staged a lavish and unprecedented display of unimaginably high [...]
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