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On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Have You Ever Seen a King Protea?
On the inside is a good place to be as the weather cools and skies turn gray. Specifically, on the inside at the National Arboretum where a huge display of some of the most fascinating flowers in the world are on show (free) now through November 16, 9 am to 4:30 pm, seven days a week.
I recently attended the opening of this remarkable exhibit celebrating the National Arboretum’s 70th birthday. Called Floral Blossoming Wealth of South Africa, it is located in the main hall of the visitor reception center at the Arboretum, 3501 New York Avenue Northeast, in Washington. It features fresh and dried floral plants from South Africa, and is sponsored by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and by the South African Agricultural Research Council.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Everything’s Coming Up Sunflowers
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Everything’s Coming Up Sunflowers
Everything’s coming up sunflowers for 1996! They’re everywhere! On hats, on skirts, scarves, shawls, and shirts, on greeting cards, postcards, and magazine covers. Even the posh twentieth anniversary edition of ‘Pacific Horticulture’, a prestigious little literary quarterly has given its cover to sunflowers. So it’s not a great surprise to discover that the National Garden Bureau has named 1996 the ‘Year of the Sunflower!’Â
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Seeing Black-Eyed Susan
As you contemplate the ruins of last summer’s garden and ponder miracles for next year, give sunny, black-eyed Susans a chance to work some for you. This rustic native plant is the cover story of the summer 1996 issue of The Quarterly Journal of The Perennial Plant Association, and that’s a considerable endorsement.
The Quarterly is a small magazine published for nurserymen, wholesalers, and other members of the Perennial Plant Association. It’s not exactly the Vogue or Harper’s of the gardening world since its only color picture is on the cover.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: A Gift From Mexico
Long before Christmas came to the Western continents and adopted the poinsettia, Cuetlaxochitl, the plant that turned red in November and December, was cherished as a symbol of purity by the Aztecs including the last emperor, Montezuma, (1466-1520). They also had practical applications for the plant. From the pointed bracts they extracted a reddish purple dye used as a cosmetic, and the milky white latex sap went into a medicinal preparation to counteract fever.
