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ON THE INSIDE with Jacqueline Hériteau To Be Changed
We wander through the gardens at Brookside and the American Horticultural Society’s River Farm to smell the roses and gather beauty secrets — like how tying asters together with soft twine makes a statement in height and color — and how a fountain of tall variegated grasses can soften a brick corner.
Walking the grounds at Monticello you have an experience of a different order. Yes, on a clear day the 360-degree view from Thomas Jefferson’s “little mountain” is extraordinary. Yes, the 1,000-foot long vegetable terrace is an ode to the beauty of beans staked on weathered poles, to silver artichokes, aromatic herbs, and to the talent of its present curator, Maggie Stemann. Yes, this exquisite little mansion is beautifully restored, and the gift shop has been stocked with taste.
THE EARTH : My Russian Adventures
The life of an organic farmer may be hard at times, but it certainly is not dull. Since 1991, my husband and I have traveled in Russia on four occasions, meeting farmers and gardeners. In the process, we’ve had great adventures, met lots of really wonderful people and made dear friends. We volunteer our time for The Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI), an exceptionally effective non-governmental organization in San Francisco.
Mount Vernon: Moonlight Tours and an Old Fashion Christmas
Step back in history and enjoy the 18th-century sights, sounds and scents of the holiday season at George Washington’s plantation home. The “Holidays at Mount Vernon” program is held daily from December 1 through January 6, 1996, including Christmas and New Year’s Day. In the Mansion, guides will introduce guests to the custom of the “Christmas Pye,” describe Washington’s family holiday traditions and direct visitors to the rarely-seen third floor. Outside, guests are welcomed around a bonfire for complimentary cookies and hot cider. This year, the Holiday program opens with “Mount Vernon by Moonlight” -
FROM GARDENER TO TOUR GUIDE
Some years ago when I decided to admit to being a gardener, I never considered using the activity for anything more than a hobby. Then after people asked me about plants, soil, the weather (always the weather), I started writing books dealing with specific garden subjects. That worked so well that over the past twenty years I’ve both written and illustrated eighteen garden books on subjects ranging from ornamental grasses to perennial borders to rock gardens to all annuals found on today’s market. But you could have knocked me over with a loaded wheelbarrow when Fugazy Travel of Asheville asked me to be a tour leader to the gardens of Southern England.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Hériteau: The Tulip Library
The landscaping season is just getting under way in and around the Capitol. A favorite spot of mine is the Tulip Library, a neat garden located between the Tidal basin and the Jefferson Memorial. There are about 100 small beds, each planted with one to two hundred varieties of tulips, most of them samples of the tulips that bloom around town. Early this month you may still be in time to see some of the lovely little species tulips that have been planted there this year for the first time at the recommendation of Rob DeFeo, chief horticulturist for the National Park Service. Species tulips come back in my garden, along with the tall tulips that the squirrels steal and bury in the pachysandra, but other tulips rarely bloom a second time for me. As I understand tulipology, after they bloom, the mother bulbs of the big beautiful Dutch tulips make bulblets instead of making flowers for next year’s blooming.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Flower Power at the White House
When the garden goes to sleep, do you get this deep, gnawing hunger for fresh flowers? One way I get around it is to pick flowers from some of my houseplants — a cyclamen blossom and the tip of a fern frond, for example, makes a sweet little nosegay, and a geranium set in a tip sprig of variegated pothos is adorable.
But of course, I also feast on perfumed and pampered florists’ flowers. Some of the most elegant, simple, arrangements I’ve ever seen were created by a veteran White House florist Rusty Young. I interviewed him years ago for Family Circle Magazine shortly before he retired. The flowers he worked with came from the wholesale market and even from the supermarket, but in Rusty’s hands they became arrangements fit for a First Lady!
