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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.
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!
On the Inside with Jacqueline Hériteau: Have You Ever Communed with a 100 Year-Old Maple?
The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is everything a botanical garden can be: a glorious place to spend a golden fall day, a great center for learning, a storehouse of treasured native plants, and not too far from an interesting city—historic Richmond in this case.
But what is even more exciting is the evidence everywhere of this young botanic garden’s vision of the contribution it hopes to make. To introduce plants adaptive to central Virginia and to expand the plant palette is one way they state their goal. But it’s way bigger. They hope to teach future generations about the interdependence of people and plants. Holly Shimizu, who left her position as Assistant Director of the US Botanic Garden in DC to join the Ginter Garden, puts it this way:
ON THE INSIDE : Have You Ordered Your Bulbs Yet?
Nurserymen and catalog people are feisty, irascible, creative dreamers, and they dance up a storm given a chance, which isn’t every week, nor even every year. The way they are is easier to understand when you know that most started their own businesses, worry all the time about going broke because so many do, are jealous of the quality of their products, and love plants with a passion only the best Shakespearean sonnets can express adequately. Many classy catalogs are, or started out, as mom-and-pop operations where mom, pop, and the kids, risk everything all the time and often earn less than the minimal hourly wage.
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!’
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.
